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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