Fossil of Tiny Calcifying Marine Algae (IMAGE)

Goethe University Frankfurt

Fossil of Tiny Calcifying Marine Algae

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Using the coccolithophore Emiliana huxleyi the researchers were able to determine the salinity of the Northern Aegean Sea some 11,000 to 5,000 years ago.

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Jörg Bollmann

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