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Page 83
... organic particles , constantly being created on air bubbles in the sea . This vast unsus- pected food supply for marine life was only recently ( 1964 ) discovered by three U.S. scientists . Based on this research , one of these ...
... organic particles , constantly being created on air bubbles in the sea . This vast unsus- pected food supply for marine life was only recently ( 1964 ) discovered by three U.S. scientists . Based on this research , one of these ...
Page 84
... organic material , Dr. Riley believes , are the strange " marine snow " often reported but never understood by bathyscaph operators and marine scien- tists . Until now , most oceanographers have held that the marine food chain was a one ...
... organic material , Dr. Riley believes , are the strange " marine snow " often reported but never understood by bathyscaph operators and marine scien- tists . Until now , most oceanographers have held that the marine food chain was a one ...
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... organic particulate matter , for organic aggregates formed on air bubbles might be the progenitors of all life , including man . " Even if life did not trace its ancestry back to air bubbles in the sea , " Dr. Riley adds , " it seems ...
... organic particulate matter , for organic aggregates formed on air bubbles might be the progenitors of all life , including man . " Even if life did not trace its ancestry back to air bubbles in the sea , " Dr. Riley adds , " it seems ...
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