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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0027_01C72918.4E4028D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable During a guided walk at Thomas Raddall Park when the Port Joli Basin = Conservation Society launched their new brochure on lichens, I learned = that the black greasy deposit on rocks just below the high tide mark is = actually a tiny lichen. Of course this means that an algae is present = too, since they live in symbiosis. The really interesting question is, "Why does it flourish on some = shorelines and not on others?" I'll venture a guess that the answer has much to do with the nourishment = of the algae component. I'm curious too! Gloria ------=_NextPart_000_0027_01C72918.4E4028D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.3020" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>During a guided walk at Thomas Raddall = Park when=20 the Port Joli Basin Conservation Society launched their new brochure on = lichens,=20 I learned that the black greasy deposit on rocks just below the high = tide mark=20 is actually a tiny lichen. Of course this means that an algae is present = too,=20 since they live in symbiosis.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The really interesting question is, = "Why does it=20 flourish on some shorelines and not on others?"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I'll venture a guess that the answer = has much to do=20 with the nourishment of the algae component.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I'm curious too!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Gloria</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0027_01C72918.4E4028D0--
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