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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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Pleistocene marine calcareous macro-and-microfossils of Navarino Island (Chile) as environmental proxies during the last interglacial in southern South America
Sandra Gordillo,Sandra Gordillo,Gabriela Catalina Cusminsky,Emiliana Bernasconi,Juan Federico Ponce,Jorge Rabassa,Jorge Rabassa,Mario Pino +7 more
TL;DR: The taxonomic composition of this paleontological record represents the richest and most diverse macro-and micro assemblage recovered from Pleistocene southern South America, including molluscs, cirripeds, echinoids, foraminifers and ostracods as discussed by the authors.
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Benthic foraminiferal assemblages of the imperial harbor of Claudius (Rome): Further paleoenvironmental and geoarcheological evidences
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a paleoenvironmental reconstruction of historical development in the area of the ancient harbor of Claudius based on micropaleontological and sedimentological data.
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Triassic organic-cemented siliceous agglutinated foraminifera from timor leste: conservative development in shallow-marine environments
David W. Haig,Eujay McCartain +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, foraminifera are described from 11 different facies associations representing basinal deposits of the Triassic in Timor Leste, and a survey of equivalent faunas from selected shallow-marine basins ranging from the Carboniferous to the mid-Cretaceous illustrates the conservative development through time of the siliceous agglutinated foraminifiera.
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Benthic foraminiferal responses to water-based drill cuttings and natural sediment burial: Results from a mesocosm experiment
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of burial by water-based drill cuttings and natural test sediment on living (stained) benthic foraminifera were investigated in a mesocosm experiment.
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Arctic Ocean benthic foraminifera Mg/Ca ratios and global Mg/Ca-temperature calibrations: New constraints at low temperatures
Natalia Barrientos,Caroline H Lear,Martin Jakobsson,Christian Stranne,Matt O'Regan,Thomas M. Cronin,Aleksandr Y. Gukov,Helen K. Coxall +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the use of Mg/Ca ratios in six Arctic Ocean benthic foraminifera species as bottom water palaeothermometers.
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