How to Use "Foraminifera" with Example Sentences
- 1. Foraminifera grow in the ocean and when they die , mix with coral to become the sediment that forms atolls .
- 2. Stewart fallon of the australian national university in canberra and his colleagues collected samples from drill cores of the marine crust of tiny marine fossils called foraminifera .
- 3. Carbon dioxide and ice.researchers have measured the ratios of boron and calcium in planktonic foraminifera to calculate the levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide over the past 20 million years .
- 4. No surprise there -- from coral to clams to microscopic foraminifera , shelled critters make their hard parts out of calcium carbonate ( caco3 ) .
- 5. There is evidence that the amount of carbonate in the shells of foraminifera , micro-plankton that are crucial to ocean ecology , has recently dropped by as much as a third .