Microscopic Pictures of Foraminifers (IMAGE)

NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

Microscopic Pictures of Foraminifers

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Microscopic pictures of individual foraminifers. Left: A foraminifer with a shell containing four chambers of which one is empty. Also note the spines. Right: Picture of the interior of a foraminifer. The green colour is caused by seawater with an indicator showing that the acidity has changed. The actual size of the foraminifer is about 0.25 millimeter.

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Dr. Lennart de Nooijer (NIOZ)

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