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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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The characteristics of carbonate system recovery during a relatively dry event in a mixed carbonate/siliciclastic environment in the Pelsonian (Middle Triassic) proximal marginal marine basins: A case study from the tropical Tethyan northwest Gondwana margins
Dorit Korngreen,Or M. Bialik +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an outcrop and subsurface sections of the Ra'af Formation from the northwest Gondwana margins facing the southeast corner of the tropical western Tethyan seaway assigned to the southern Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) (south Israel, Levant Basin, north Arabian plate) are the focus of this work.
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100 Years of benthic foraminiferal history on the inner Texas shelf inferred from fauna and stable isotopes: Preliminary results from two cores
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors determined benthic foraminiferal fauna and isotopic compositions in two 210 Pb dated box cores to examine the evidence for nearshore hypoxia and freshwater discharge on the Texas shelf during the last 100 years.
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Recent benthic foraminifera from the Caribbean continental slope and shelf off west of Colombia
TL;DR: A quantitative benthic foraminiferal analysis was conducted on 30 sea-floor sediment samples distributed along the continental slope and shelf in Fuerte Area (Colombian Caribbean), between 39 and 2469m water depth as discussed by the authors.
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Biogeography and ecostratigraphy of Late Quaternary planktonic foraminiferal taphocoenoses in the Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles, NE Caribbean Sea
TL;DR: In this paper, the same authors reported that white-walled specimens form 66% of the total G. ruber group, but in the Leeward Islands the percentages are higher (mean 81.7%).
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Benthic foraminifera and brachiopods from a marine cave in Spain: environmental significance
Luisa Bergamin,Emma Taddei Ruggiero,Giancarlo Pierfranceschi,Belen Andres,Ricardo Constantino,Cinzia Crovato,Andrea D’Ambrosi,Andrea Marassich,Elena Romano +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, sediment samples from a marine cave in the Murcia region (eastern Spain) were analyzed for grain size, total benthic foraminifera and dead brachiopoda to obtain environmental information through physical and ecological data in order to understand the Benthic communities of cave environments and their ecological significance.
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