Marine barite (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Marine barite

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Marine barite extracted from deep-sea sediment cores, seen here in a scanning electron microscope image, provides a record of variations in ocean chemistry over geologic time.

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Adina Paytan

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