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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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Live benthic foraminiferal faunas along a bathymetrical transect (140–4800m) in the Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic)
Meryem Mojtahid,Meryem Mojtahid,Clémentine Griveaud,Christophe Fontanier,Pierre Anschutz,F. J. Jorissen +5 more
TL;DR: In a 10-stations bathymetrical transect in the Bay of Biscay, this article observed important changes in the density, composition and microhabitats of live foraminiferal faunas from the outer continental shelf to the abyssal plain.
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Using an independent geochronology based on palaeomagnetic secular variation (PSV) and atmospheric Pb deposition to date Baltic Sea sediments and infer 14C reservoir age
Bryan C Lougheed,Ian Snowball,Matthias Moros,Karoline Kabel,Raimund Muscheler,Joonas J. Virtasalo,Lukas Wacker +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the results of multiple dating methods carried out on cores in the Gotland Deep area of the Baltic Sea were presented, with particular emphasis on the Littorina stage (8 ka ago to the present) and possible changes in the C-14 reservoir age of our dated samples.
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Benthic foraminiferal evidence of sediment supply changes and fluvial drainage reorganization in Holocene deposits of the Po Delta, Italy
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed benthic foraminiferal analyses performed on the modern Po Delta evidenced a complex palaeogeographic evolution, and Hierarchical R- and Q-mode cluster analyses allowed to distinguish four assemblages indicative of different marine environments and sub-environments.
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Environmental constraints of foraminiferal assemblages distribution across a brackish tidal marsh (Caminha, NW Portugal)
Francisco Fatela,João Moreno,Filipa Moreno,M. Fátima Araújo,Teresa Maria Fernandes Valente,Carlos Antunes,Rui Taborda,César Andrade,Teresa Drago +8 more
TL;DR: Foraminiferal living assemblages from a brackish tidal marsh were studied across three sampling transects, under Spring and Autumn conditions as mentioned in this paper, and the influence of the geochemical characteristics on the assemblage including chemical composition of the estuarine and marsh surface sediments, in addition to salinity, pH and calcite saturation of estuarial and marsh interstitial waters was evaluated.
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Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum environmental change in the New Jersey Coastal Plain: benthic foraminiferal biotic events
TL;DR: The authors used benthic foraminiferal data across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in cores from Wilson Lake (WL) and Bass River (BR) to recognize 5 species clusters.
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