Rock Snot

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gjones
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Rock Snot

Post by gjones »

Didymosphenia or Rock Snot beautiful but problematic. 400 X Nikon Optiphot LXI camera.


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Grant Jones

Mitch640
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Post by Mitch640 »

Nice catch. It look like everything but the diatom is moving. How did you do that?

BJ
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Post by BJ »

Grant,


You might be interested in this article on why Didymosphenia geminata is so successful:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 161819.htm

....by the way it is a very nice photo!

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gjones
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Post by gjones »

Thanks a lot BJ for the great article I'll pass it along to others.
Grant Jones

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