Chalk coccolith micro-fossils, artwork. Coccoliths are individual plates of calcite crystals forming the external mineralised structure (coccosphere)

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Chalk coccolith micro-fossils, artwork. Coccoliths are individual plates of calcite crystals forming the external mineralised structure (coccosphere) of a small marine algal organism called a coccolithophore. Coccolithophores are present in huge numbers in the oceans. They form the great bulk of the chalk rocks, such as those in southern England.

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Size: 4316px × 4049px
Photo credit: © NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: artwork, biology, chalk, coccolith, fauna, fossil, geological, geology, historical, history, illustration, natural, nature, palaeontology, paleontology, prehistoric, prehistory, rock, zoological, zoology