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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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Distribution and environmental significance of live and dead benthic foraminiferal assemblages in surface sediments of Laizhou Bay, Bohai Sea
Feifei Wang,Maosheng Gao,Jian Liu,Shaofeng Pei,Shaofeng Pei,Chengfeng Li,Xi Mei,Shixiong Yang +7 more
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors collected surface sediment samples at 80 stations from Laizhou Bay in the Bohai Sea, and the live and dead foraminifera were analyzed in order to understand the relationship between foraminiferal assemblages and environmental factors.
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Modern Benthic Foraminiferal Diversity: An Initial Insight into the Total Foraminiferal Diversity along the Kuwait Coastal Water
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a literature survey of the diversity of benthic foraminifera in Kuwait waters, including the presence of 451 species belonging to 156 genera, 64 families, 31 families and 9 orders.
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Multi proxy analysis for reconstructing the late Holocene evolution of a Mediterranean Coastal Lagoon: Environmental variables within foraminiferal assemblages
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reconstruct the evolution of foraminiferal assemblages and the environmental variables (type of substrate, content in calcium carbonate and content in organic matter) in the Valencia lagoon (western Mediterranean) in response to changes in the late Holocene.
Integrated palaeontological characteristics (ammonites, ostracods, foraminifers, dinocysts) of the Berriasian deposits of central Crimea
TL;DR: In this paper, the Berriasian deposits of the central Crimea have been studied in order to compose a composite sequence of the stage with detailed palaeontological characterization, including the Jacobi, Occitanica and Boissieri zones, based on ammonites found in the sections.
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New insights into stratigraphy and paleoenvironment of the Upper Cretaceous-Eocene succession, Farafra Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt
TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed field, bio-, sequence stratigraphy, and paleoenvironmental studies are carried out on the Aqabaat section, Farafra Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt.
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