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n. - Marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny processes.

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  • I split the proxies into three groups: tree rings, ice cores, and other stalactites, globigerina, Chesapeake Mg/Ca, Chinese composite.
  • The three series which have this problem are the Arabian Sea globigerina proxy, the China Combined proxy, and the GRIP borehole temperature proxy.
  • Rennick took a sounding, 1960 fathoms; the tube brought up two small lumps of volcanic lava with the usual globigerina ooze.
  • Central Europe; and on its bottom was deposited the soft ooze of globigerina shells and siliceous sponge skeletons which has now hardened into chalk and flint.
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