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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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Eocene Depositional Sequence and Cycles in Kutch
TL;DR: In this paper, two Eocene sequences are recognized in the Eocene succession of Kutch and a hiatus of about 7 Myr is estimated between the Deccan trap and Sequence-I.
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Benthic foraminifera associated with the zooxanthellate coral cladocora in the pleistocene of the kos island (aegean sea, greece): sea level changes and palaeoenvironmental conditions
TL;DR: A Pleistocene section, cropping out in the northern Kos Island has been selected for study as discussed by the authors, where the main lithology (clayey sands, sandy marls) of the section is interrupted by a prominent Cladocora bank which allows a proper extraction of its faunal contents and identification at species level.
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Morphological abnormalities in benthic foraminifera caused by an attached epibiont foraminifer
TL;DR: The finding of morphological test abnormalities caused by an epibiont in an unpolluted environment has important implications for the use of the abnormalities for pollution biomonitoring.
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Fossils of the southern Baltic Sea as palaeoenvironmental indicators in multi-proxy studies
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of microfossils from the Baltic Sea or other Holocene brackish-water sediments is presented, with references to taxonomic keys and ecology referring to the area of the southern Baltic Sea.
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Foraminiferal evidence of major environmental changes driven by the sun-climate coupling in the western Portuguese coast (14th century to present)
João Moreno,Francisco Fatela,Eduardo Leorri,Filipa Moreno,Mário A. Gonçalves,Juan José Gómez-Navarro,Maria Fátima Araújo,Maria da Conceição Freitas,Ricardo M. Trigo,William H. Blake +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, foraminiferal records of two dated sediment cores retrieved from the high marsh settings and supported by geochemical-sedimentological data were compared with records previously published on the northwest coast (Caminha salt marsh) to offer a more comprehensive overview of the environmental evolution of the west Iberian margin over the last six centuries.
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