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Science 10 March 1967:
Vol. 155. no. 3767, pp. 1243 - 1244
DOI: 10.1126/science.155.3767.1243
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Opal Phytoliths in a North Atlantic Dust Fall

D. W. Folger 1, L. H. Burckle 1, and B. C. Heezen 1

1 Lamont Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964

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 ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Eolian Biogenic Detritus in Deep Sea Sediments: A Possible Index of Equatorial Ice Age Aridity.
C. Parmenter, C. Parmenter, and D. W. Folger (1974)
Science 185, 695-698
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