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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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Influence of the Holocene relative sea level on the coastal plain of Sepetiba Bay (Southeast Brazil)
Maria Virgínia Alves Martins,Maria Virgínia Alves Martins,Anita Fernandes Souza Pinto,Leonardo Borghi,Thiago Gonçalves Carelli,Maider Morlote,Daniel Rey,Egberto Pereira,José Carlos Martins Ramalho,Fernando Rocha,Mauro Cesar Geraldes,Guilherme Loriato Potratz,Guilherme Loriato Potratz,Wania Duleba,Antonio Tadeu dos Reis,Josefa Varela Guerra,Maria Antonieta da Conceição Rodrigues +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the results of the SP2 core (50.30 m length) collected in the coastal plain of Sepetiba Bay (SB; SE Brazil), 2 km away from the Guandu River mouth (latitude 22° 55′S, longitude 43° 46′W).
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Changing depositional environments reflected by foraminifera in a transgressive-regressive sequence of the Lower Cretaceous on Spitsbergen
Jenő Nagy,Mufak Naoroz +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the Boreal Valanginian to Barremian foraminiferal succession of the Rurikfjellet Formation in central Spitsbergen is applied to stratigraphic zonation, analyses of depositional conditions and developing a sequence stratigraphraphic model.
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Facies variations in response to Holocene sea-level and climate change on Bora Bora, French Polynesia: Unravelling the role of synsedimentary siderite in a tropical marine, mixed carbonate-siliciclastic lagoon
Anja Isaack,Eberhard Gischler,J. Harold Hudson,Flavio S. Anselmetti,Stephan Buhre,Gilbert Camoin +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sedimentary facies were identified in the barrier-reef lagoon of Bora Bora using microfacies and statistical analyses of 70 sediment samples taken at high resolution from two vibrocores.
Dissertation
Réponse des foraminifères à l’anoxie dans les milieux côtiers : études in situ de l’écologie des foraminifères benthiques, expériences en laboratoire et analyse du métabolisme anaérobie
TL;DR: Pina-Ochoa et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the impact of anoxie on the composition of faunes in the environment and found that the presence of a small fraction of the faunus in a given environment can lead to an increased risk of death due to hypoxia.
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The Littoral Bottoms of Benidorm Island (Western Mediterranean Sea): Eco-Sedimentological Characterization Through Benthic Foraminifera
TL;DR: In this paper, seven sampling sites representing the variety of littoral/sublittoral bottoms present have been sampled and the distribution of some benthic foraminifer key species has been evaluated in this regard.
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