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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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Integrated Jurassic biostratigraphy : A closer look at nannofossil and ammonite evidences from the Indian subcontinent
TL;DR: In this article, an updated composite Bajocian-Callovian biozonation of ammonites and marker nannofossil species is given to encourage use of more updated literature.
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Living Bulimina marginata in the SW Atlantic continental margin: Effect of the Subtropical Shelf Front and South Atlantic Central Water
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that the distribution of Bulimina marginata, a species of benthic foraminifera, is influenced by the front location and it can be used as a proxy of the Subtropical Shelf Front (STSF) in sediment core analysis.
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High-resolution geochemical records of extreme drought in southeastern Africa during the past 7000 years
Marc S. Humphries,Andrew Green,Caldin Higgs,Kate L. Strachan,Annette Hahn,Letitia Pillay,Matthias Zabel +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a highly resolved sedimentary record from the eastern margin of South Africa to reconstruct hydroclimate in southeast Africa over the past 7000 years, showing that rapid shifts in moisture availability were a characteristic feature of mid-late Holocene climate across the summer rainfall region of southern Africa, with these events broadly anti-phased with hydroclimatic shifts in East Africa and northwest Madagascar.
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An enigmatic kilometer-scale concentration of small mytilids (Late Miocene, Guadalquivir Basin, S Spain).
Julio Aguirre,Juan C. Braga,José M. Martín,Ángel Puga-Bernabéu,José N. Pérez-Asensio,Isabel M. Sánchez-Almazo,Luciana Génio +6 more
TL;DR: The upper Miocene heterozoan carbonates formed at the southern active margin of the Guadalquivir Basin, the foreland basin of the Betic Cordillera.
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Changes in the water column structure and paleoproductivity in the western South Atlantic Ocean since the middle Pleistocene: Evidence from benthic and planktonic foraminifera
TL;DR: In this article, an integrated approach (planktonic and benthic foraminifera and stable isotopes) carried out in two cores collected on continental slope of Santos Basin (central Brazil), the paleoceanographic oscillations of the last ∼570-ka are documented.
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