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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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Late Pleistocene-Holocene shoreline reconstruction and human exploitation of molluscan resources in northern Pieria, Macedonia, Greece
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented new stratigraphic, sedimentological, pedological, and micro-fauna data, in order to reconstruct late Pleistocene and Holocene landscapes and shorelines of northern Pieria, northern Greece, and to discuss human exploitation of coastal environments.
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The anatomy of a Fenland roddon: sedimentation and environmental change in a lowland Holocene tidal creek environment
Dinah M. Smith,Jan Zalasiewicz,Mark Williams,Ian P. Wilkinson,Ian P. Wilkinson,James J. Scarborough,Mark Knight,Carl Sayer,Martin Redding,Steven Grahame Moreton +9 more
TL;DR: The Fenland seafloor was formed by a Holocene sand/silt-filled tidal creek, locally called a roddon, excavated at Must Farm near Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, within the English Fenland as discussed by the authors.
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Living foraminifera in the shallow waters of Admiralty Bay: distributions and environmental factors
TL;DR: The living foraminiferal fauna and associated environmental factors were examined using shallow-water sediment and bottom-water samples collected in the Admiralty Bay (King George Island, Antarctica) during the austral summer of 2004-05.
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Decalcification of benthic foraminifera due to "Hebei Spirit" oil spill, Korea.
Yeon Gyu Lee,Shin Kim,Da Un Jeong,Jung Sick Lee,Han Jun Woo,Min Woo Park,Byeong Hak Kim,Maeng Hyun Son,Yang Ho Choi +8 more
TL;DR: A study of benthic foraminiferal assemblages was carried out on sediment samples collected from the Sogeunri tidal flat, Taean Peninsula, Korea, finding that factors that affect breakage of the chamber in benthics foraminifera under low pH condition may be not only deto decalcification but also to exposure duration of substrata in the tidal flat spilled crude oil.
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Benthic foraminiferal faunas reveal transport dynamics and no-analog environments on a glaciated margin (Gulf of Alaska)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine measures of compositional fidelity, modern analog faunal methods, sedimentary analyses, and taphonomic scoring to examine the history of sediment transport and environmental change in a ~ 60,000-year continental slope record from the Gulf of Alaska using benthic foraminiferal assemblages.
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