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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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Biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the Late Oligocene in the north-western Transylvanian Basin revealed by the foraminifera assemblages
TL;DR: In this article, the Oligocene Vima Formation from the north-western Transylvanian Basin (Maramureș county, Romania) is presented based on planktonic and benthic foraminiferal assemblages.
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Mudbank off Alleppey, India: A bane for foraminifera but not so for carbon burial
TL;DR: Increased turbidity and low bottom water salinity are the main cause of seasonally stressed environment in the mudbank, and Corg degradation coupled with fresh water influx induced drop in bottom water pH is responsible for low foraminiferal population in mudbank region, in all the seasons.
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Environmental baselines and reconstruction of Atlantic Water inflow in Bjørnøyrenna, SW Barents Sea, since 1800 CE.
TL;DR: Metal concentrations, sediment properties and benthic foraminiferal assemblages were investigated in sediment cores in the SW Barents Sea, to reconstruct environmental baselines and natural variability of Atlantic Water inflow since 1800 CE and show warming of Atlanticwater and northward retreat of the Arctic Front.
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Dense brine refluxing: A new genetic interpretation of widespread anhydrite lumps in the Oligocene–Lower Miocene Asmari Formation of the Zagros foreland basin, NE Iraq
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed that the anhydrite lumps were formed within the Upper Asmari Formation (Aquitanian-Burdigalian) due to downwards seepage of the overlying hypersaline water, which is termed as "dense brine refluxing".
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In the shadow of giants: Calcareous nannoplankton and smaller benthic foraminifera from an Eocene nummulitic accumulation (Transylvanian Basin, Romania)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied micropaleontological assemblages, recovered from the large Eocene (Bartonian) nummulitic accumulation in the northwestern Transylvanian Basin (Romania), suggest an inner shelf depositional environment.
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