Planktic foraminifera form their shells by attachment of metastable carbonate particles
Dorrit E Jacob, Macquarie University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Stephen Eggins, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Richard Wirth, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany