eferences:

On the web
• Eureka: Diatoms - Nature's Gems
  An illustrated guide to all about diatoms.
  Eureka, University of Bergen, Norway
  
  
• Center for Algal Microscopy and Image Digitization
  Large collection of black and white photographs with emphasis on terrestrial species.
  Bowling Green University
  
  
• Harmful Algae Page
  Includes information about toxic diatoms.
  National Office for Marine Biotoxins and Harmful Algal Blooms, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  
  
• Diatoms
  Beautiful photographs of diatoms.
  Wim van Egmond
  
  

Scientific source articles
• Franks, Peter, J. S., 1996, World's smallest sea monsters are tiny but mighty, in Oceans Watch, San Diego Union-Tribune, December 25, Page E-2.
• Grim, K. A., Lange, C. B., and Gill, A., 1996, Biological forcing of hemipelagic sedimentary laminae: Evidence from ODP Site 893, Santa Barbara Basin, California, Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol. 66, no. 3, p. 613-624.
• Lange, C. B., Berger, W. H., Burke, S. K., Casey, R. E., Schimmelmann, A., Soutar, A., and Weinheimer, A, 1987. El Nino in Santa Barbara Basin: Diatom, radiolarian and foraminiferan responses to the " 1983 El Nino" Event, Marine Geology, Vol. 78, p. 153-160.
• Tomas, Carmelo R., 1997, Identifying Marine Phytoplankton, Academic Press, London.
• Venrick, Elizabeth L., 1998, The phytoplankton of the Santa Barbara Basin @ Patterns of chlorophyll and species structure and their relationships with those of surrounding stations, CalCOF1 Reports, Vol. 39, p 124-132.
• Yoder, J. A., Ackelson, S. G., Berber, R. T., Flaments, P., and Balch, W. M., 1994, A line in the sea, Nature, Vol. 371, p. 689-692.