foraminifer

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foraminifer englannista suomeksi

1. huokoseläimet

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foraminifer englanniksi

1. Any of a large group of aquatic amoeboid protists of the subphylum Foraminifera, characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm that among other things is used for catching food, often with a calcareous shell with many holes through which pseudopodia protrude.

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2. (quote-journal)|month=October|year=1859|volume=LXXII|issue=CXLII|page=263|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5NQ6AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA263|oclc=507147293|passage=The species of foraminifer which composes, almost to the exclusion of all others, the deep Atlantic mud, is called ''Globigerina''. (..) The natural home of the foraminifers appears to be in the deeper parts of the ocean, commencing where the regular inhabitants of limited depths terminate.

3. (quote-journal)|date=4 January 1860|volume=XVI, part I (Proceedings of the Geological Society)|page=300|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=6KEEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA300|issn=0016-7649|oclc=263593044|passage=The Heterostegina-bed at Malta is not without smaller Foraminifers (some of which we can identify,—as the ''Globigerina bulloides'', ''Truncatulina lobatula'', &c.), but the matrix is too stubborn to yield all its treasures.

4. (quote-book)|edition=3rd|location=Edinburgh; London|publisher=(publishing house)|William Blackwood and Sons|year=1872|section=part II|page=61|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/manualofpalont00nichuoft/page/61/mode/1up|oclc=875345116|passage=From a palæontological point of view the only part of a Foraminifer with which we have to deal is the shell or "test," (..) Each bud of the compound ''Foraminifer'' is surrounded by its own shell, so that the whole comes to be composed of a number of chambers, each containing a mass of sarcode.

5. (quote-book)|series=States Geological Survey|U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin|seriesvolume=2080|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=States Government Publishing Office|United States Government Printing Office|year=1994|page=10|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=w9k6r0MEbcYC&pg=PA10|column=1|oclc=180668353|passage=The environmental significance of foraminifer abundance variations in Arctic cores is controversial(nb..). One interpretation concludes that foraminifer-rich intervals represent interglacial conditions reflecting seasonally absent or reduced ice cover leading to increased productivity; intervals barren or nearly barren of foraminifers are considered to represent glacial conditions with thicker ice cover and lower productivity(nb..).

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