ATLANTIC OOZE 73 



attendant upon the enormous pressure, by construct- 

 ing appliances which reached the depths referred 

 to and brought up samples of the deposits known 



Fig. 14. Globigerina bulloides. Very greatly magnified. 

 'Atlantic Ooze' from a depth of z\ miles. 



as 'ooze.' Subsequently the ocean bed was exam- 

 ined at several points, and as a result we know 

 that the floor of the North Atlantic, for the greater 

 part, is one vast bed of white calcareous matter, and 



