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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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A culture-based calibration of benthic foraminiferal paleotemperature proxies: delta O-18 and Mg/Ca results
TL;DR: In this article, foraminifera were cultured for five months at four temperatures (4, 7, 14 and 21 C) to establish the temperature dependence of foraminiferal calcite δ18O and Mg/Ca.
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Palaeogeographic Changes at Lake Chokrak on the Kerch Peninsula, Ukraine, during the Mid- and Late-Holocene
Daniel Kelterbaum,Helmut Brückner,Vasiliy Dikarev,Stefanie Gerhard,Anna Pint,Alexey V. Porotov,Victor Zin'ko +6 more
TL;DR: A detailed relative sea level (RSL) curve for the northern coast of Kerch has been established as discussed by the authors, showing that sea level continuously rose without any previously postulated regression/transgression cycles.
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Foraminifera from the Eocene La Meseta Formation of Isla Marambio (Seymour Island), Antarctic Peninsula
TL;DR: Benthic foraminiferal assemblages are described for the first time from the early Eocene of West Antarctica as mentioned in this paper, and they come from the lower member (Telm1) of the La Meseta Formation of Isla Marambio.
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Benthic foraminifera as indicators of habitat change in anthropogenically impacted coastal wetlands of the Ebro Delta (NE Iberian Peninsula).
TL;DR: This research provides the first recent reconstruction of change in the Ebro Delta wetlands, and illustrates the importance of benthic foraminifera for biomonitoring present and future conditions in Mediterranean deltas.
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Coralline algae as depth indicators in the Miocene carbonates of the Eratosthenes Seamount (ODP Leg 160, Hole 966F)
Giovanni Coletti,Daniela Basso +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the abundance of the major coralline algal groups has been investigated and quantified in the Coralline-rich facies of the Miocene shallow-water carbonates of the Eratosthenes Seamount (eastern Mediterranean, off-shore Cyprus).
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