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GLOBIGERINA, A

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 123 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GLOBIGERINA, A . d'See also:Orbigny, a genus of Perforate See also:Foraminifera (q.v.) of pelagic See also:habit, and formed of a conical See also:spiral aggregate of spheroidal See also:chambers with a crescentic mouth. The shells accumulate at the bottom of moderately deep seas to See also:form " Globigerina See also:ooze " and are preserved thus in the See also:chalk. Hastigerina only differs in the " See also:flat " or nautiloid spiral.

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