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Ecology and Applications of Benthic Foraminifera
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This book presents the ecological background required to explain how fossil forms are used in dating rocks and reconstructing past environmental features including changes of sea level and demonstrates how living foraminifera can be used to monitor modern-day environmental change.Abstract:
In this volume John Murray investigates the ecological processes that control the distribution, abundance, and species diversity of benthic foraminifera in environments ranging from marsh to the deepest ocean. To interpret the fossil record it is necessary to have an understanding of the ecology of modern foraminifera and the processes operating after death leading to burial and fossilisation. This book presents the ecological background required to explain how fossil forms are used in dating rocks and reconstructing past environmental features including changes of sea level. It demonstrates how living foraminifera can be used to monitor modern-day environmental change. Ecology and Applications of Benthic Foraminifera presents a comprehensive and global coverage of the subject using all the available literature. It is supported by a website hosting a large database of additional ecological information (www.cambridge.org/0521828392) and will form an important reference for academic researchers and graduate students in Earth and Environmental Sciences.read more
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Environmental control on a land–sea transitional setting: integrated sedimentological, geochemical and faunal approaches
Eric Armynot du Chatelet,Viviane Bout-Roumazeilles,Rodolfo Coccioni,Fabrizio Frontalini,Fabio Francescangeli,Giulia Margaritelli,Roberto Rettori,Federico Spagnoli,Federica Semprucci,Alain Trentesaux,Nicolas Tribovillard +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, an integrated methodological study was conducted in Lake Varano (Italy) using 45 spatially distributed samples throughout the area and selected environmental parameters (trace elements, organic matter, clay mineral assemblages, grain size of sediment, and water characteristics).
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Changes in standing stock and vertical distribution of benthic foraminifera along a depth gradient (58–2750 m) in the southeastern Arabian Sea
TL;DR: In this paper, the vertical distribution of living benthic foraminifera from the Gulf of Mannar, Southeastern Arabian Sea, to find out the sediment depth that contains representative living assemblage and to understand the relationship between ecological parameters and foraminiferal abundance.
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Integrated biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of the Upper Cretaceous to Paleocene succession in the northern Moldavidian Domain (Eastern Carpathians, Romania)
TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated biostratigraphy based on calcareous nannofossils, organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts (dinocysts) and foraminiferal assemblages is proposed to reconstruct the depositional environments of the interval.
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Holocene palaeoceanographic changes in Barrow Strait, Canadian Arctic: foraminiferal evidence
Thomas R. Gregory,Christopher W. Smart,Malcolm B. Hart,Guillaume Massé,Guillaume Massé,Lindsay L. Vare,Simon T. Belt +6 more
TL;DR: Foraminiferal assemblages in the ca. 4.5-10-ka interval are dominated by the benthic species Islandiella helenae and Cassidulina reniforme (57% of total), with Elphidium clavatum, Cibicides lobatulus and Buccella frigida also being common as discussed by the authors.
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Biodiversity of foraminifera from Late Pleistocene to Holocene coral reefs, South Sinai, Egypt
TL;DR: In this article, foraminiferal faunas of two fossil, raised reef terraces at the southern Sinai Peninsula were studied and compared to modern coral reefs, showing that during marine isotope stage 5 (MIS 5), 77-129 kyr BP, for the two raised terraces, Amphistegina (A. lessonii and A. lobifera) dominated the five fossil foraminifera associations.
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