Diatom Red (IMAGE)

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Diatom Red

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Diatoms have valves that easily dissolve in salty ocean water. But they leave traces of molecules in the sediments that scientists can look for to determine how the populations of algae developed in the past.

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Ulrike Hoff

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