It was caused, Shell says, by the retreating Biafran rebel army during the 1967-70 civil war.
"The corrosive properties of the water caused shells of live animals to be severely dissolved and this demonstrates how vulnerable pteropods are," said Nina Bednarsek, formerly of the British Antarctic Survey and now at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
DeVos and his family are staunch supporters and frequent givers to Republican causes, shelling out $500,000 for a Republican super PAC in 2014.
Whether anything could be done if the cause of shell disease were discovered is unclear.
One reason may be that when the external fuel tank is filled with its superchilled fuels, its metallic interior shrinks, which can cause its shell of insulating foam to pull away.
The main function of the ligament (as well as joining the valves together) is to passively cause the shell to open.
The function of the eyes of both mollusks and annelids is much the same as the mirror eyes of Pecten; they see movement and initiate protective behaviour, causing the shell to shut or the organism to withdraw into a tube.
This paper describes a comparison of a numerical analysis using the FLUENT code and downscaled experimental data in an effort to determine the root causes of shell wall thinning of feedwater heaters.
Additionally, anomalies caused by buried metal objects could be separated from more subtle anomalies caused by shell holes.
The research money also will be used to study causes for shell disease, which has struck mainly in the waters off of Montauk and Fishers Island, N.Y.. Shell disease does not kill lobsters, but leaves their shells eroded and pitted and thus unappealing for the lobster market.
