Marine Snow: The Origin of Oil
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Marine Snow: The Origin of Oil

DirectorsTetsuro Onoma, Shinkichi Noda

1960
25 min
Documentary

This film takes us into the microscopic world of the plankton that mass in the oceans. Their bodies ultimately turn to marine snow and accumulate on the ocean floor where, across vast time spans, they transform into crude oil.

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