When Seawater Warms
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
THE microscopic creatures with their unique shapes and forms are so small that they can’t be seen with the naked eye, but these Globigerinoides Ruber or planktonic foraminifera can record the sea temperature even long after they die and become fossils.
It is these beautiful fossilized plankton shells which reveal that 2,000 years ago Indonesian waters were as warm as today, when global warming has begun to raise the global temperature.
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