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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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Relative sea-level change in western New Guinea recorded by regional biostratigraphic data
David P. Gold,Lloyd T. White,Lloyd T. White,Indra Gunawan,Indra Gunawan,Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the known bathyal preferences of fossils to generate a regional sea-level curve and compared this with global records of sea level change over the same period, and used this with existing geological maps and exploration well data to reconstruct the palaeogeography of western New Guinea from the Carboniferous to present day.
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Middle Permian (Guadalupian) fusulinid taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the mid-latitude Dalan Basin, Zagros, Iran and their applications in paleoclimate dynamics and paleogeography.
TL;DR: In this article, a model of climatefluctuations and paleogeography in the Neo-Tethys is based on analyses of temporaland spatial distribution of fusulinids.
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Biology and Ecology of Long Island Sound
Glenn R. Lopez,Drew A. Carey,James T. Carlton,Robert M. Cerrato,Hans G. Dam,Rob DiGiovanni,Chris S. Elphick,Michael G. Frisk,Christopher J. Gobler,Lyndie A. Hice,Penny Howell,Adrian Jordaan,Senjie Lin,Sheng Liu,Darcy J. Lonsdale,Maryann McEnroe,Kim A. McKown,George B. McManus,Rick Orson,Bradley J. Peterson,Chris Pickerell,Ron Rozsa,Sandra E. Shumway,Amy N. S. Siuda,Kelly Streich,Stephanie C. Talmage,Gordon T. Taylor,Ellen Thomas,Margaret (Peg) A. Van_Patten,Jamie M.P. Vaudrey,Charles Yarish,Gary H. Wikfors,Roman N. Zajac +32 more
TL;DR: This chapter provides an overview of the major groups of organisms occupying the dominant habitats of LIS.
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Reconstructing Holocene temperature and salinity variations in the western Baltic Sea region : A multi-proxy comparison from the Little Belt (IODP Expedition 347, Site M0059)
Ulrich Kotthoff,Jeroen Groeneveld,Jeanine L. Ash,Anne-Sophie Fanget,Anne-Sophie Fanget,Nadine B. Quintana Krupinski,Odile Peyron,Anna Stepanova,Jonathan P. Warnock,Niels A. G. M. van Helmond,Benjamin H. Passey,Ole R. Clausen,Ole Bennike,Elinor Andrén,Wojciech Granoszewski,Thomas Andrén,Helena L. Filipsson,Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz,Caroline P. Slomp,Thorsten Bauersachs +19 more
TL;DR: In this article, a multi-proxy-based reconstruction of paleotemperature (both marine and terrestrial), paleosalinity, and paleoecosystem changes from the Little Belt (Site M0059) over the past 12,000 years is presented.
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Modern and relict foraminiferal biofacies from a carbonate ramp, offshore Kuwait, northwest Persian Gulf
TL;DR: Foraminiferal distribution patterns in the northern Persian Gulf may serve as useful modern analogues for carbonate ramp deposits in shallow marginal and epicontinental seas in the fossil record as discussed by the authors.
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