Microfossils in the ANDRILL core
This is an image of a zooplankton
called Globocassidulina subglobosa. It is too small to be seen with the naked
eye, so many scientists from the ANDRILL
project are looking for it in the core
using microscopes. If the scientists see lots of these plankton then they've
found a clue that the sea of
Antarctica may have been more productive,
unfrozen and slightly warmer in the recent geological past.
Postcards from the Field: ANDRILL
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