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Diatoms hidden inside a grain of sand, SEM
False-coloured scanning electron micrograph of three diatoms hidden inside a cavity of a grain of quartz sand. The sand was collected from a beach on the Florida gulf coast in the USA. Some of the sand at Florida's white gulf coast beaches is more than 99% quartz. Quartz or silica is a primary component of typical beach sand which forms when rock is weathered away (gradual wearing down of rock by …
Creator
- Stefan Eberhard
Subject
- Grain
- Sand
- Silica
- Beach
- Coast
- Dry
- Arid
- Drought
- Algae
- Microorganism
- …
- Cave
Creator
- Stefan Eberhard
Subject
- Grain
- Sand
- Silica
- Beach
- Coast
- Dry
- Arid
- Drought
- Algae
- Microorganism
- …
- Cave
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Rights
- Credit: Stefan Eberhard
Source
- B0009761
Identifier
- B0009761
- v2wqzsz8
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-06-09T11:40:20.463Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-06-09T11:40:20.463Z