Coccolithophore
Coccolithophores are single-celled algae belonging to the haptophytes. They are distinguished by special plates called coccoliths which are important microfossils. Coccolithophores are exclusively marine and are found in large numbers throughout the upper layers of the ocean.See also What is a Coccolithophore? (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov:81/Library/Coccolithophores/)
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told there was a coaling record broken.
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swift, that guarded us on every hand, coming and going as the sharks
saw, who have seen lake water in the Hills! And all the ships
ship so far behind that only masts and smoke were visible above the
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entitled him to this. Surely he was a better man than I. Yet here
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firemen at the furnaces. They cursed me in the name of God, their
night with coal dust. The sweat ran down in rivers between ridges of
fire doors opened they glowed like pictures I have seen of devils.
them, I judged that they and we were one.
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bird that takes an insect; and he went and spoke to the captain of
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