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n. - Marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude.

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  • Steve M., some months back I linked to a California Current foraminifer study that showed things as fairly flat there through the MWP and LIA.
  • (H) Abundances of the foraminifer Globigerina bulloides in Cariaco Basin sediments are higher during glacial advances indicating stronger trade winds (20).
  • Relative abundance variations of the planktic foraminifer Globigerinoides sacculifer and àƒÅ½à‚ⲱ8O measured G. ruber white variety in core PBBC1 plotted against...
  • It may seem a small thing to admit that the dull vital actions of a fungus, or a foraminifer, are the properties of their protoplasm, and are the direct results of the...
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