International Space Station 800mm Photograph

Image credit:  Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov)

TRIPOLI, FORAMINIFERA  -  32.89 N 13.18 E

The link is to images from beaches in Tripoli.

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Foraminifera are  single-celled protists with shells. Depending on the species, the shell may be made of organic compounds, sand grains and other particles cemented together, or crystalline calcite. The dark brown structure is the test, or shell, inside which the foram lives. Radiating from the opening are fine hairlike reticulopodia, which the foraminifera uses to find and capture food. The forams shown below are from the  Pleistocene Epoch  making them about 1 million years old.

 

 

 

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2X MAGNIFICATION (RED LINE = 1MM)

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1X MAGNIFICATION (RED LINE = 1MM)

2X MAGNIFICATION (RED LINE = 1MM)

   

3X MAGNIFICATION (RED LINE = 1MM)

4X MAGNIFICATION (RED LINE = 1MM)

 

 

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