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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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Benthic foraminifera as indicators of relative sea-level fluctuations: Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstruction of a Holocene marine succession (Calabria, south-eastern Tyrrhenian Sea)
Claudia Cosentino,Flavia Molisso,Giovanna Scopelliti,Antonio Caruso,Donatella Insinga,Carmine Lubritto,Fabrizio Pepe,Marco Sacchi +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated stratigraphic analysis conducted on a marine gravity core (MSK-12 C4) recovered from the outer continental shelf (82m water depth) of western Calabria, ∼2.6 km, NE of Capo Vaticano (Eastern Tyrrhenian margin).
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Environmental change in the Limfjord, Denmark (ca 7500-1500 cal yrs BP): a multiproxy study
Jonathan P. Lewis,Jonathan P. Lewis,David B. Ryves,Peter Rasmussen,K.L. Knudsen,Kaj Strand Petersen,Jesper V. Olsen,Jesper V. Olsen,Melanie J. Leng,Melanie J. Leng,Melanie J. Leng,Peter Kristensen,Suzanne McGowan,Bente Philippsen +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, a diatom-based salinity transfer function based on a pan-Baltic training set has been applied to the fossil diatom dataset for quantitative assessment of salinity change over the study period.
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Characterization of bottom hydrodynamic conditions on the central western Portuguese continental shelf based on benthic foraminifera and sedimentary parameters.
Maria Virgínia Alves Martins,Maria Virgínia Alves Martins,Victor Quintino,Rita Marques Tentúgal,Fabrizio Frontalini,Paulo Miranda,Lazaro Laut,Roberto Martins,Ana Maria Rodrigues +8 more
TL;DR: Dead benthic foraminiferal assemblages from the central western Portuguese continental shelf have been studied to identify the prevalent oceanographic processes in the study area and reveal that the Offshore Group has a higher internal similarity than the Inshore Group.
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Does elevation matter? Living foraminiferal distribution in a hyper tidal salt marsh (Canche Estuary, Northern France)
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of hyper tidal exposure on living benthic foraminifera and their suitability as sea level indicators has been investigated within a salt marsh area along the Canche Estuary.
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