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Definition of Coccolith

Coccolith
Coccolith Coc"co*lith, n. [Gr. ? a grain, seed + -lith.] (Biol.) One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.

Meaning of Coccolith from wikipedia

- Coccoliths are individual plates or scales of calcium carbonate formed by coccolithop****s (single-celled phytoplankton such as Emiliania huxleyi) and...
- studying global climate change because, as ocean acidity increases, their coccoliths may become even more important as a carbon sink. Management strategies...
- articulate brachiopods, planktonic (free-floating) foraminifera, and coccoliths. High-magnesium calcite skeletal grains are typical of benthic (bottom-dwelling)...
- phytoplankton covered with uniquely ornamented calcite disks called coccoliths. Individual coccoliths are abundant in marine sediments although complete coccospheres...
- the critical advantage of EHUX coccoliths is their distinctive and sophisticated asymmetric morphology. EHUX coccoliths are characterised by several hammer-headed...
- microscopic plates, which are called coccoliths, of microscopic green algae known as coccolithop****s. In addition to the coccoliths, the fossil debris includes...
- cuttlebone gladius Lorica Choanoflagellate lorica Protist s**** coccosphere coccolith diatom frustule foraminifera test testate amoebae Seas**** echinoderm...
- carbonate deposited by the s**** of marine invertebrates, prin****lly coccoliths), found in the upper Cretaceous of Western Europe. The name Cretaceous...
- tiny (less than 30 microns in diameter) microfossils that are similar to coccoliths deposited by the modern-day coccolithop****s. The nannofossils are a convenient...
- sea. The sea bottom was covered with white mud formed from fragments of coccoliths, the skeletons of tiny algae that floated in the surface waters and sank...