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Fossil Coccospheres from a Tertiary Outcrop on the Continental Slope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Maurice Black
Maurice Black
Affiliation:
Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.
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Abstract

A soft chalky limestone or coccolith-marl, believed to form a submarine outcrop in the upper part of the continental slope off Brittany, consists largely of coccoliths, with subordinate quantities of foraminifera and sponge-spicules. Of the twenty or more species of Coccolithophoridae found in this deposit, two are preserved as complete coccospheres more frequently than as separate placoliths; these are described and named. The age of the rock is probably late Tertiary.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 99 , Issue 2 , April 1962 , pp. 123 - 127
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1962

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