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Science 15 May 1964:
Vol. 144. no. 3620, pp. 837 - 839
DOI: 10.1126/science.144.3620.837
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Fossil Coccoliths in Limestone Examined by Electron Microscopy

Susumu Honjo 1 and Alfred G. Fischer 1

1 Department of Geology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Examination of polished and etched limestone surfaces (Jurassic from the Alps, Paleocene from Spain) by electron microscopy reveals coccoliths, in varying stages of preservation, in numbers of 100,000 to 1,000,000 per culbic millimeter.

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