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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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Geological record of tsunami inundations in Pantano Morghella (south-eastern Sicily) both from near and far-field sources
F. Gerardi,Alessandra Smedile,C. Pirrotta,Maria Serafina Barbano,P. M. De Martini,Stefania Pinzi,A. Gueli,G Ristuccia,Giuseppe Stella,S. O. Troja +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, sedimentological and paleontological features of the anomalous deposits as well as their spatial distribution observing the following properties: different facies with respect to the local stratigraphic sequence; erosive bases, rip-up clasts and broken elements testifying violent deposition mechanisms; macro and micro fauna of marine environment; relatively constant thickness throughout most of the depositional zone with thinning at the distal end; large sand sheets that extend inland.
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Can the morphology of deep-sea benthic foraminifera reveal what caused their extinction during the mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided new hypotheses on the functions of the morphologies that characterised the Ext. Gp and how these features could have been associated with their demise.
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Characterisation of Ottnangian (middle Burdigalian) palaeoenvironments in the North Alpine Foreland Basin using benthic foraminifera—A review of the Upper Marine Molasse of southern Germany
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore possible explanations in order to better understand the palaeogeographic, stratigraphic and environmental setting of the Upper Marine Molasse in the North Alpine Foreland Basin of southern Germany.
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Late Weichselian deglaciation and early Holocene development of a cold-water coral reef along the Lopphavet shelf (Northern Norway) recorded by benthic foraminifera and ostracoda
Claudio Stalder,Silvia Spezzaferri,Andres Rüggeberg,Andres Rüggeberg,Andres Rüggeberg,Claudius Pirkenseer,Giordana Gennari +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, two gravity cores (POS391 559/2,277 cm long and POS391 5 59/3,282 cm long) were recovered on a cold-water coral reef in the area of Lopphavet, northern Norway.
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Environmental conditions of shallow waters alongside the southern corniche of jeddah based on benthic foraminifera, physico-chemical parameters and heavy metals
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used cluster and canonical correspondence analyses to subdivide the study area into three facies: 1) the reef flat and lagoonal area is dominated by a Coscinospira hemprichii-Peneroplis planatus-Quinqueloculina seminula assemblage occurring in very shallow (≤3 m), warm (~29°C), high salinity (40) waters, with a Quinquelocoulina cf. limbata-Q. laevigata-Ammonia tepida co-occ
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