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Description: Major biogeneous components contributing to marine sediments are the remains of single celled plankton and benthos organisms. The hardpart shells are made out of silica (opal), i.e. radiolaria (a, ø=350 µm) and diatoms (b, ø=50 µm) or out of calcium carbonate, i.e. foraminifera (c, ø=400 µm) and coccoliths (d, ø=15 µm).
Title: Marine-microfossils-major hg
Credit: Grobe, H., Diekmann, B., Hillenbrand, C.-D.(2009). The memory of the Polar Oceans, In: Hempel, G. (ed) Biology of Polar Oceans, hdl:10013/epic.33599.d001, pdf 0.4 MB.
Author: Hannes Grobe/AWI
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