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RECENTLY, Wells and Illing have suggested1 that the so-called ‘whitings’ in the Persian Gulf are clouds of calcium carbonate precipitated instantaneously from sea-water that has become supersaturated with respect to calcium carbonate, owing to removal of CO2 by the photosynthetic action of phytoplankton.
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Wells, A. J., and Illing, L. V., in Developments in Sedimentology, 1, 429, edit. by L. M. J. U. van Straaten (Amsterdam, 1964).
Simkiss, K., Nature, 201, 492 (1964).
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DE GROOT, K. Inorganic Precipitation of Calcium Carbonate from Sea-water. Nature 207, 404–405 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207404a0
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