Shell- and skeleton-producing plankton and nekton in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean

• Main Author: Thiede, Jörn
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Bornträger 1975
• Subjects: Near Islands; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/56648/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/56648/1/Thiede_J_1975_C.pdf

Plankton pump samples and plankton tows (size fractions between 0.04 mm and 1.01 mm) from the eastern North Atlantic Ocean contain the following shell- and skeleton-producing planktonic and nectonic organisms, which can be fossilized in the sediments: diatoms, radiolarians, foraminifers, pteropods,...