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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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Recent benthic foraminifera in the Flensburg Fjord (Western Baltic Sea)
TL;DR: In this paper, living benthic foraminifera of Flensburg Fjord were surveyed in June 2006, showing that the inner fjord was dominated by Elphidium incertum and E. excavatum.
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Evolution and paleogeographic distribution of the lepidocyclinids
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present descriptions of new samples from 37 wells drilled off South America, and present a systematic comparison of the Lepidocyclinidae from the South America and the Tethyan sub-provinces of the Mediterranean-West Africa and the Indo-Pacific.
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Benthic foraminifera as bioindicator for cold-water coral reef ecosystems along the Irish margin
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated total (unstained) benthic foraminiferal assemblages from surface sediments of this region with the aim to trace their distribution patterns and to test if they can be used as bioindicators for facies characterization in different parts of carbonate mound systems.
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Evidence for carbonate platform failure during rapid sea-level rise; ca 14 000 year old bioclastic flow deposits in the Lesser Antilles
Jessica Trofimovs,Jodie K. Fisher,Heather Macdonald,Peter J. Talling,R. Stephen J. Sparks,Malcolm B. Hart,Christopher W. Smart,Georges Boudon,Christine Deplus,Jean-Christophe Komorowski,Anne Le Friant,Steven Grahame Moreton,Melanie J. Leng +12 more
TL;DR: The largest volume sediment flows near the Soufriere Hills volcano on Montserrat in the Lesser Antilles in the last 26 kyr were generated by a large submarine slope failure of the carbonate shelf comprising the south-west flank of Antigua or the east flank of Redonda as mentioned in this paper.
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Stratigraphic framework of the Apulian deep-water coral province, Ionian Sea
Elisa Malinverno,Marco Taviani,Antonietta Rosso,D. Violanti,Igor M. Villa,Alessandra Savini,Agostina Vertino,Alessandro Remia,Cesare Corselli +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, shallow sediment lithology and stratigraphy were investigated at selected areas off Santa Maria di Leuca (SML) on the Apulian margin between 350 and 1200m water depth, in order to define the sea-bottom character on which coral mounds have developed.
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