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- noun Plural form of
coccosphere .
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Globigerinae, coccoliths, and coccospheres are round as the chief constituents of both, and testify to the general similarity of the conditions under which both have been formed.
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Comparing these formed particles with those in the Atlantic soundings, he found the two to be identical; and thus proved that the chalk, like the soundings, contains these mysterious coccoliths and coccospheres.
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Dr. Wallich [60] verified my observation, and added the interesting discovery, that, not unfrequently, bodies similar to these “coccoliths” were aggregated together into spheroids, which he termed “coccospheres.”
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Globigerinae, coccoliths, and coccospheres are round as the chief constituents of both, and testify to the general similarity of the conditions under which both have been formed.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909
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Dr. Wallich verified my observation, and added the interesting discovery, that, not unfrequently, bodies similar to these "coccoliths" were aggregated together into spheroids, which he termed "coccospheres."
Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909
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Comparing these formed particles with those in the Atlantic soundings, he found the two to be identical; and thus proved that the chalk, like the soundings, contains these mysterious coccoliths and coccospheres.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909
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Comparing these formed particles with those in the Atlantic soundings, he found the two to be identical; and thus proved that the chalk, like the soundings, contains these mysterious coccoliths and coccospheres.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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Atlantic soundings, he found the two to be identical; and thus proved that the chalk, like the soundings, contains these mysterious coccoliths and coccospheres.
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Atlantic soundings, he found the two to be identical; and thus proved that the chalk, like the soundings, contains these mysterious coccoliths and coccospheres.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Globigerinae, coccoliths, and coccospheres are round as the chief constituents of both, and testify to the general similarity of the conditions under which both have been formed.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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