The Underwater Library at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
April 8, 2021
…also pieces of drowned coral reefs, ice-rafted cobbles, manganese nodules, as well as very rare igneous, metamorphic, and mantle rocks. Home to someof the largest samples, the Geological Collection also has some of the smallest: opal microfossils looking all the world like carnival spun glass, which are neatly secured in…