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Definition of Coccolith
1. n. One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.
Definition of Coccolith
1. Noun. (biology) A microscopic skeletal plate of calcite on the surface of certain marine phytoplankton; it forms chalk and limestone when fossilized ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coccolith
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coccolith
Literary usage of Coccolith
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"Single coccolith in section and plan. Fig. 7. ... showing the internal coccolith
in early stages of solution. „ 15. ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1872)
"When the development of the coccolith has taken a direction as in fig. ...
In all other cases the coccolith usually becomes completed by the formation of a ..."
3. Biographical Memoirs by National Academy Of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences Staff, Caroline K. McEuen (1980)
"Summary of coccolith biostratigraphy. In: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling
... coccolith age determinations, Leg 5, Deep Sea Drilling Project. ..."
4. ...The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain by Geological Survey of Great Britain, Alfred John Jukes- Browne, William Hill (1903)
"The result of their investigations is to show that coccolith« possess a well
marked structure—viz., two limbs joined together by a central collar: "The real ..."
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