Opal Phytoliths in a North Atlantic Dust Fall
- 10 March 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 155 (3767) , 1243-1244
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.155.3767.1243
Abstract
Minute bodies (less than 80 microns) of isotropic silica, originally precipitated by terrestrial plants, are found together with freshwater diatoms in falls of dust over the ocean. Eolian transport from Africa can explain the occurrence of similar plant remains in deep-sea sediments of the equatorial Atlantic as far west as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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