Free-living foraminiferal-algal nodules can be over 2000 years old and contribute 980 megatons of calcium carbonate to the mesophotic benthic carbonate budget of the NEOM region of the Saudi Arabian Red Sea, according to radiometric dating of nodule accretion rates and benthic surveys.
- Valentina Alice Bracchi
- Sam J. Purkis
- Francesca Benzoni