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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 planktonic foraminifera from the north Eastern Desert, Egypt: Biostratigraphic, paleoenvironmental and sequence stratigraphy implications
TL;DR: Salama et al. as discussed by the authors used the planktonic foraminifera to recognize the biostratigraphy for the Middle-Upper Eocene succession in the study area.
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Biostratigraphy, paleoenvironment and foraminiferal associations of the Rupelian-Chattian sediments in Zagros Basin, SW Iran
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined two stratigraphic successions of the Oligocene Asmari Formation in Fars Province for the purpose of introducing biostratigraphic zonation, paleoenvironmental reconstruction and paleoecological interpretation.
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Living foraminiferal assemblages in two submarine canyons (Polcevera and Bisagno) of the Ligurian basin (Mediterranean Sea)
L. Di Bella,Anna Sabbatini,Laura Carugati,M. Lo Martire,Gian Marco Luna,Martina Pierdomenico,Roberto Danovaro,Roberto Danovaro,Alessandra Negri +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, living benthic foraminifera were investigated in eleven stations sampled along transects following a depth gradient from Polcevera and Bisagno canyons and the adjacent open slope (Ligurian Sea), in a depth interval ranging from 200 to 2000m.
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Deep sea benthic foraminifera as proxies for palaeoclimatic fluctuations in the New Caledonia Basin, over the last 140,000years
TL;DR: In this article, subsamples of the same uppermost 141 cm of GC4 were picked and sorted for all foraminiferal taxa, and 46 species occurred in large numbers to investigate changing pattern and trend of biodiversity and relative abundance.
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Distribution of Recent Foraminifera as Depositional Indicators in Yongle Atoll, Xisha Islands, South China Sea
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined 44 surface-sediment samples from three small islands in Yongle Atoll, with the goal to investigate the relationship between foraminiferal distribution and environmental characterization.
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