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GLOBIGERINA, A

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 123 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GLOBIGERINA, A . d'

Orbigny

ORBIGNY, ALCIDE DESSALINES

, a genus of Perforate

Foraminifera

FORAMINIFERA

(q.v.) of pelagic

habit

HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

, and formed of a conical

spiral

SPIRAL

aggregate of spheroidal chambers with a crescentic mouth. The shells accumulate at the bottom of moderately deep seas to form "

Globigerina

GLOBIGERINA, A

ooze

OOZE (O. Eng. wdse, cognate with an obsolete waise, mud; cf. O. Nor. veisa, muddy
pool
- POOL
)

" and are preserved thus in the

chalk

CHALK

. Hastigerina only differs in the "

flat

FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of
Teutonic
- TEUTONIC
- TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES
origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

" or nautiloid

spiral

SPIRAL

.

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