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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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Intertidal and subtidal benthic foraminifera in flooded caves: Implications for reconstructing coastal karst aquifers and cave paleoenvironments
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the response of shallow (45μm versus >63μm mesh sieve fractions) to sea-level forcing in coastal karst aquifers.
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Sedimentary and microfossil imprint from historical earthquakes and tsunamis, Jalisco coast, Mexican subduction
Rocío Castillo-Aja,María Teresa Ramírez-Herrera,María Luisa Machain-Castillo,Avto Goguitchaichvili,Rubén Cejudo +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a geologic archive obtained in a sheltered coastal lagoon was analyzed applying a multi-proxy approach to reveal the occurrence of historical earthquakes in the Jalisco coast.
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Effect of hurricanes on guilds of nearshore epiphytal foraminifera, nevis, west indies
TL;DR: The hurricanes’ impact on foraminiferal number but not on diversity accords with the diversity-stability hypothesis that predicts community resilience increases with species richness, and the hypothesis that hurricanes keep nearshore epiphytal foraminifera in a permanently pioneering sere is rejected.
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The northern coast of the Ottnangian (middle Burdigalian, early Miocene) Molasse Sea in Germany: sediments, foraminiferal assemblages and biostratigraphy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided new data on the litho- and biostratigraphy of the middle Burdigalian (Ottnangian) marine sediments at or close to the former northern coastline of the German Molasse Basin, based on cores from three boreholes (Burgau, Hamlar 2 and Lutzingen) and two outcrops (Haunsheim and Dattenhausen).
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The Sarmatian/Pannonian boundary at the western margin of the Vienna Basin (City of Vienna, Austria)
Mathias Harzhauser,Oleg Mandic,Matthias Kranner,Petra Lukeneder,Andrea K. Kern,Martin Gross,Giorgio Carnevale,Christine Jawecki +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, Sarmatian and Pannonian cores were used to reveal a complex succession of marine and lacustrine depositional environments during the middle to late Miocene transition.
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