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Foraminifera (Microscope slide)

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Description

Notes: About 560 miles E of Kiribati. Gray Museum; Original catalog number GM 2745

Accession number

ypm iz 031571

Holding institution

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Date collected

4 September 1875

Area or Water body

Off east of Christmas Island, Line Islands
Eastern Central Pacific Ocean

Form

Microscope slide

FAO

77

Field measurements and observations

Bottom Temperature (°F): 34.6
Depth (Fathoms): 2925
Sediment sample: Globigerina ooze
Specific Gravity at water bottom: 1.02786
Specific Gravity at water surface: 1.02328
Surface Temperature (°F): 79.5
Temperature at x fathoms: 78.7;77.7;77;76.2;75.5;75.3;75.3;72.8;67.3;62.8;59.1;56.5;55;54.2;53.5;53.2;52.9;52.6;52.3;52;48.3;45;42.7;40.6;39.5;38.7;38;37.7;37.3;37;36.7;36.3;36

Taxonomic groups

Animalia

Station

270

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