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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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Long Island Sound
James S. Latimer,Mark A. Tedesco,R. Lawrence Swanson,Charles Yarish,Paul E. Stacey,Corey Garza +5 more
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Mg/Ca and δ18O in the brackish shallow-water benthic foraminifer Ammonia ‘beccarii’
Takashi Toyofuku,Takashi Toyofuku,Masayuki Suzuki,Hisami Suga,Saburo Sakai,Atsushi Suzuki,Tsuyoshi Ishikawa,Tsuyoshi Ishikawa,Lennart J. de Nooijer,Ralf Schiebel,Hodaka Kawahata,Hiroshi Kitazato,Hiroshi Kitazato +12 more
TL;DR: It is shown how the combination of these two parameters can be used to reconstruct seawater δ18O and temperature in shallow marine habitats.
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Environmental significance of foraminiferal assemblages dominated by small-sized Ammodiscus and Trochammina in Triassic and Jurassic delta-influenced deposits
TL;DR: The sediment packages analyzed for benthic foraminifera consist of mudstones with interbedded sandstones deposited in shallow delta-influenced shelf to deltaic environments.
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Facies development along the tide-influenced shelf of the Burdigalian Seaway: An example from the Ottnangian stratotype (Early Miocene, middle Burdigalian)
Patrick Grunert,Ali Soliman,Stjepan Ćorić,Reinhard Roetzel,Mathias Harzhauser,Werner E. Piller +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report quantitative micropaleontological (benthic foraminifers, dinoflagellate cysts, calcareous nannoplankton), sedimentological (grain-size analysis) and geophysical (background gamma radiation) analyses from Ottnang-Schanze, the stratotype for the regional Ottnanangian stage (Central Paratethys; Lower Miocene, middle Burdigalian).
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Tidal influence in redbeds: A palaeoenvironmental and biochronostratigraphic reconstruction of the Lower Tremp Formation (South-Central Pyrenees, Spain) around the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary
TL;DR: In this article, a new interpretation is proposed based on the presence of inclined heterolithic stratification in point bar deposits, along with flaser and lenticular bedding and presence of in situ marine fossils, including those of planktonic foraminifera.
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