DIATOMACEOUS earth, as mined in Lompoc, California, and other sites in the south-west United States, is made up of the siliceous skeletons of diatoms which lived in the Miocene and Pliocene periods.

However, under a microscope, their glitters and colors differ depending on how the light strikes them, like a kaleidoscope. Oku became fascinated by the beauty of diatoms when he was a graduate ...

The introduction describes the diatom cell in detail, the structure of the wall (often extremely beautiful ... The book is filled with picture perfect photomicrographics made through light microscopy, ...

Thank you! The diatom collection at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History is drawn from a variety of sources. It contains uncleaned and cleaned material, as well as permanent slides and ...

and the Kwansei-Gakuin University in Japan have now discovered a protein shell that plays a key role in the diatoms' CO 2 ...