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From: Soft corals form aragonite-precipitated columnar spiculite in mesophotic reefs

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Environmental scanning electron microscope micrographs of fractured spiculite-bearing colony of Sinularia vrijmoethi. (a) Spindle-shaped sclerite with surface warts. (b) Fractured spiculite revealing sclerites lithified by fibrous crystallites. (c) Magnified cementing material between spindle-shaped sclerites. (d) Fibrous crystallites with euhedral crystal morphology.

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