Fossilized Skeletons from the Deep Sea - Middle Eocene (45 million year old) Radiolaria (course-meshed objects), Foraminifera and sponge spicules from the western Indian Ocean are shown here. Photographed through the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's scanning electron microscope with a magnification of 200X, these microscopic fossils, remains of deep-sea organisms, came from a Deep Sea Drilling Project core taken at site 237, Leg 24 in the Indian Ocean.

• 1975

• Deep Sea Drilling Project, Photo by Stanley A. Kling

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the SIO Deep Sea Drilling Project Records, 1961-1987

• Deep Sea Drilling Project
• Deep Sea Drilling Project
• Glomar Challenger (Ship)

• Foraminifera Fossil--Indian Ocean
• Radiolaria
• Scanning electron microscopy

• image

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