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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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Re-interpreting the Baltringer Horizont as a subtidal channel facies: Implications for a new understanding of the Upper Marine Molasse "Cycles" (Early Miocene)
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Benthic foraminifera from the Southeastern Mediterranean shelf: Dead assemblages and living-dead comparisons recording consequences of Nile River damming
TL;DR: The role of the Nile River damming in shaping the recent benthic ecology in the southeastern Levantine (SL) Basin, the saltiest, hottest and the most oligotrophic basin within the Mediterranean Sea was explored in this paper.
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Response of benthic foraminiferal communities to changes in productivity and watermass conditions in the epicontinental Paratethys during the middle Miocene
TL;DR: In this article, a study based on a combination of organic geochemistry (δ13Corg, n-alkane based indices; TOC/TIC) with benthic foraminiferal stable isotopic data from the time interval of ~14.4 to 14.36
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Pleistocene biogeochemical record in the south‐west Pacific Ocean (images site MD97‐2114, Chatham Rise)
Miriam Cobianchi,Valeria Luciani,Claudia Lupi,Nicoletta Mancin,Fabrizio Lirer,Nicola Pelosi,I. Trattenero,Manuela Bordiga,Ian Hall,Mario Sprovieri +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the main paleoceanographic and paleoclimate changes that have influenced the surface and deep-water circulation in the SW Pacific Ocean (Chatham Rise, eastern New Zealand) during the last million years are reconstructed.
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The “Turritella Layer”: A Potential Proxy of a Drastic Holocene Environmental Change on the North–East Atlantic Coast
Agnès Baltzer,Zohra Mokeddem,Evelyne Goubert,Franck Lartaud,Nathalie Labourdette,Jérôme Fournier,Jean-François Bourillet +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a collection of data including sub-bottom VHR seismic (Seistec boomer), bathymetry and cores, was conducted in three sea lochs of the north west coast of Scotland, as part of an investigation of the sedimentological and climatic change records since the Last Glacial Maximum.
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