Changing components, rock textures, lithofacies, platform types and architecture throughout time are unique characteristics of carbonate rocks. Characterizing these attributes has been …
The first book to review all the evidence concerning both the dinosaur extinctions and all the other major extinctions-of plant, animal, terrestrial, and marine life-in the history of life. All the …
T Geel - Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 2000 - Elsevier
The functional morphology and life style of foraminifers can be used to determine their former position on the platform and to detect upwards shallowing and deepening trends in …
PR Bown, JA Lees, JR Young - … : from molecular processes to global impact, 2004 - Springer
Planktic microfossils arguably provide the most complete (stratigraphic and taxonomic) record of biodiversity of any group of organisms. The phytoplankton record is of particular …
This book offers a comprehensive review of the entire field of taphonomy, the science of fossil preservation. It describes the formation of plant and animal fossils in oceanic …
Internal waves occur nearly ubiquitously in lakes and oceans yet their sedimentary records remain largely unrecognized. Waves propagate at the interface between fluids of different …
IP Silva, WV Sliter - 1999 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The evolution of planktonic foraminifers in the Cretaceous shows pulses of diversification and stasis interrupted by brief extinction events and faunal turnover. The overall record …
Most environmental bio-monitoring methods using the species composition of marine faunas define the Ecological Quality Status of soft bottom ecosystems based on the relative …
Nannoplankton assemblages at Ocean Drilling Program Site 690 (Maud Rise, Weddell Sea) experienced an abrupt and dramatic transformation at the onset of the Paleocene‐Eocene …