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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 mid-Holocene candidate tsunami deposit from the NW Cape (Western Australia)
Simon Matthias May,Simon Falvard,Maike Norpoth,Anna Pint,Dominik Brill,Max Engel,Anja Scheffers,Manuel Dierick,Raphaël Paris,Peter Squire,Helmut Brückner +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented detailed investigations on an allochthonous sand layer of marine origin found in a back-barrier depression on the NW Cape Range peninsula, which was OSL-dated to 5400-4300 years ago.
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Synchronous mid-Miocene upper and deep oceanic δ13C changes in the east equatorial Pacific linked to ocean cooling and ice sheet expansion
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented mid-Miocene (∼12.0-16.0 Ma) high-resolution deep thermocline planktonic foraminiferal δ 18 O and δ 13 C records at IODP Site U1337 from the eastern equatorial Pacific.
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Tracking Mid- to Late Holocene depositional environments by applying sedimentological, palaeontological and geochemical proxies, Amvrakikos coastal lagoon sediments, Western Greece, Mediterranean Sea
Pavlos Avramidis,George Iliopoulos,Dionisios Panagiotaras,Dimitrios Papoulis,P. Lambropoulou,N. Kontopoulos,George Siavalas,Kimon Christanis +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented sedimentological, palaeontological, geochemical, mineralogical, and organic petrography data from a 30m deep core representing a mid- to late Holocene lagoonal depositional environment, of a coastal area of Amvrakikos Gulf, Western Greece.
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Alpha and beta diversity of encrusting foraminifera that recruit to long-term experiments along a carbonate platform-to-slope gradient: Paleoecological and paleoenvironmental implications
Sally E. Walker,Karla M. Parsons-Hubbard,Suzanne Richardson-White,Carlton E. Brett,Eric N. Powell +4 more
TL;DR: Foraminifera are common in the world's oceans, attached to floating debris or marine animals in the water column to living on rocks, sand grains and organisms in benthic environments from shallow to deep marine regions as mentioned in this paper.
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Short-term monitoring of halifax harbour (nova scotia, canada) pollution remediation using benthonic foraminifera as proxies
Saad A. Dabbous,David B. Scott +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, short-term monitoring of benthonic foraminifera in Halifax Harbour conducted before, during, and after implementation of an enhanced, municipal pollution-abatement program showed that foraminiferal distribution correlated strongly with the amount of pollution flowing into the harbor.
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