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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 high-energy deposit in the Byzantine harbour of Yenikapı, Istanbul (Turkey)
TL;DR: In this paper, a Byzantine harbour (Theodosian harbour) has been uncovered during excavations at Yenikapi, with a stratigraphic sequence spanning the past 7000 BP, and a high-energy deposit has been interpreted as being of tsunami origin and related to the earthquake of 557 AD.
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Living (stained) deep-sea foraminifera off hachinohe (ne japan, western pacific): environmental interplay in oxygen-depleted ecosystems
Christophe Fontanier,Christophe Fontanier,Christophe Fontanier,Pauline Duros,Takashi Toyofuku,Kazumasa Oguri,K.A. Koho,Roselyne Buscail,Antoine Grémare,Olivier Radakovitch,Bruno Deflandre,Lennart Jan de Nooijer,Sabrina Bichon,Sarah Goubet,Anastasia Ivanovsky,Gérard Chabaud,Christophe Menniti,Gert-Jan Reichart,Hiroshi Kitazato +18 more
TL;DR: Live (Rose-Bengal stained) deep-sea foraminiferal faunas have been studied at five stations between 500–2000-m depth along the NE Japanese margin (western Pacific) to understand how complex environmental conditions control their structure.
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Deep-sea foraminifera from the Cassidaigne Canyon (NW Mediterranean): assessing the environmental impact of bauxite red mud disposal.
Christophe Fontanier,M.-C. Fabri,Roselyne Buscail,L. Biscara,K.A. Koho,Gert-Jan Reichart,Daniel Cossa,S. Galaup,Gérard Chabaud,L. Pigot +9 more
TL;DR: The mechanical stress related to downslope transport of red mud is a likely source of hydro-sedimentary pollution precluding the settlement of diverse fauna, and the bioavailability of trace metals is likely low as elemental enrichments were not observed in foraminiferal test chemistry.
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Composition, distribution, and taphonomy of nearshore benthic foraminifera of the farasan islands, southern red sea, saudi arabia
Ramadan H. Abu-Zied,Ramadan H. Abu-Zied,Rashad A. R. Bantan,Ali S. Basaham,Mohamed H. El Mamoney,Hamad A. Al-Washmi +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the nearshore benthic foraminifera of the Farasan Islands (southern Red Sea) were investigated to highlight the faunal distributions and the controlling environmental factors.
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Unexpected biotic resilience on the Japanese seafloor caused by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki tsunami.
Takashi Toyofuku,Pauline Duros,Christophe Fontanier,Christophe Fontanier,Christophe Fontanier,Briony Mamo,Sabrina Bichon,Roselyne Buscail,Gérard Chabaud,Bruno Deflandre,Sarah Goubet,Antoine Grémare,Christophe Menniti,Minami Fujii,Kiichiro Kawamura,K.A. Koho,K.A. Koho,Atsushi Noda,Yuichi Namegaya,Kazumasa Oguri,Olivier Radakovitch,Masafumi Murayama,Lennart Jan de Nooijer,Atushi Kurasawa,Nina Ohkawara,Takashi Okutani,Arito Sakaguchi,Arito Sakaguchi,Frans Jorissen,Gert-Jan Reichart,Hiroshi Kitazato +30 more
TL;DR: Results obtained during a research cruise targeting the seafloor off Shimokita (NE Japan), shortly after the Tōhoku-Oki earthquake and tsunami were characterized by surprisingly high benthic diversity and showed no evidence of mass mortality.
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