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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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A new chronological framework for Middle and Upper Pleistocene landscape evolution in the Sussex/Hampshire Coastal Corridor, UK
TL;DR: The authors examined recent work from the lower coastal plain using a multi-disciplinary approach these deposits to elucidate the age of the sequences and their associated environments of deposition, and proposed a robust independently dated framework for the lower parts of the coastal plain integrating for the first time the marine and terrestrial record.
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Subsidence pattern in the central Adriatic and its influence on sediment architecture during the last 400 kyr
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the contribution of sediment load and tectonic driving forces to subsidence in the central Adriatic basin and showed that tectonics is the main driver for subsidence.
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Distribution and morphological abnormalities of recent foraminifera in the Marano and Grado Lagoon (North Adriatic Sea, Italy)
R. Melis,S. Covelli +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Benthic foraminifers community with its morphological abnormalities were investigated in the recent sediments (about 10 years old) of 21 stations collected in the framework of the “MIRACLE” Project which aimed at testing the coexistence of clam farming with high Hg contamination.
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Distribution patterns of benthic foraminifera across the Ypresian–Lutetian Gorrondatxe section, Northern Spain: Response to sedimentary disturbance
Silvia Ortiz,Laia Alegret,Aitor Payros,Xabier Orue-Etxebarria,Estibaliz Apellaniz,Eustoquio Molina +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of benthic foraminiferal assemblages from an Ypresian-Lutetian distal submarine fan system in the lower bathyal Gorrondatxe section (Basque-Cantabrian Basin, northern Spain) is presented.
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Intercalibration of benthic foraminiferal and macrofaunal biotic indices: An example from the Norwegian Skagerrak coast (NE North Sea)
Elisabeth Alve,Silvia Hess,Vincent M.P. Bouchet,Vincent M.P. Bouchet,Jane K. Dolven,Brage Rygg +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a new foraminifera-based multimetric index, NQI_f, was proposed, which is an adaptation of the Norwegian Quality Index (NQI), an internationally intercalibrated macrofauna index.
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