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marine snow
noun
- small particles of organic biogenic marine sediment, including the remains of organisms, faecal matter, and the shells of planktonic oganisms, that slowly drift down to the sea floor
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Well, due to gravity, we get what Crichton calls marine snow — the continuous shower of organic matter made up of everything from dead plankton to fecal pellets, that falls from the upper ocean to deeper waters.
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And that marine snow becomes food for the creatures of the deep.
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It was hunting for marine snow - “poo, basically” in the words of one researcher.
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Those particles - the marine snow - sink to the ocean floor.
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When they die, part of the plankton is transformed into particles known as 'marine snow'.
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