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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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Microfossils from coastal environments as indicators of paleo-earthquakes, tsunamis and storms
Jessica E. Pilarczyk,Jessica E. Pilarczyk,Tina Dura,Benjamin P. Horton,Benjamin P. Horton,Simon E. Engelhart,Andrew C. Kemp,Yuki Sawai +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, microfossil habitat preferences and taphonomic character are used to constrain sediment provenance and identify overwash deposits, and how this information can be used to reconstruct the recurrence of tsunamis and storms.
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Live (stained) benthic foraminifera from the Rhône prodelta (Gulf of Lion, NW Mediterranean): Environmental controls on a river-dominated shelf
Aurélie Goineau,Christophe Fontanier,Frans Jorissen,Bruno Lansard,Roselyne Buscail,Aurélia Mouret,Philippe Kerhervé,Sébastien Zaragosi,E. Ernoult,E. Ernoult,C. Artero,Pierre Anschutz,Edouard Metzger,Christophe Rabouille +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the ecology of live (rose Bengal stained) benthic foraminifera collected at 20 stations ranging from 15 to 100 m depth in the Rhone prodelta (Gulf of Lions, NW Mediterranean).
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Late-Holocene climate variability in the Adriatic sea (Central Mediterranean)
TL;DR: Foraminifera assemblages collected from a set of sediment cores, collected on the Adriatic shelf and the Southern basin, provide compelling evidence of submillennial-scale environmental changes during the last 6000 years.
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The roles of elevation and salinity as primary controls on living foraminiferal distributions: Cowpen Marsh, Tees Estuary, UK
TL;DR: In this article, the authors determined the spatial and temporal variability of intertidal benthic foraminifera in the surface (0-1 cm) sediments from a time series survey of 31 sampling stations at Cowpen Marsh, for a period of 12 months.
The Central Paratethys palaeoceanography: A water circulation model based on microfossil proxies, climate, and changes of depositional environment
Michal Kováč,Natália Hudáčková,Eva Halásová,Marianna Kováčová,Katarína Holcová,Marta Oszczypko-Clowes,Katalin Báldi,Gyuri Less,András Nagymarosy,Andrej Ruman,Tomáš Klučiar,Michal Jamrich +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, a model of the semi-closed Central Paratethys Sea history was proposed for the entire time span of 25 Ma and a set of modified palinspastic palaeogeographic maps were reconstructed taking into account the enormous changes in depositional systems and sedimentary facies, reflecting the tectonic events from the Oligocene to Miocene.
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