Difference between revisions of "RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON FORAMINIFERA"
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| + | ==HYPERSALINE BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA FROM EASTERN RED SEA: THEIR USEFULNESS IN SEA-LEVEL RECONSTRUCTION== | ||
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| + | The Shuaiba Lagoon is a fossil back-reef, hypersaline small basin located 80 km south of Jeddah city on the eastern Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia. The surface sediments of the lagoon were investigated for their benthic foraminiferal content in order to correlate, in general, with environmental factors such as temperature, salinity, pH, sediment grain size, organic matter and, in particular, with tidal elevations to develop a training set for predicting sea-level changes in the lagoon. Hierarchical cluster analysis divided the benthic foraminifera in the Shuaiba Lagoon into four distinct faunal assemblages. ...... <br/> | ||
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| + | •Foraminiferal assemblages and their factors in the Shuaiba Lagoon were investigated. | ||
| + | •Each of these assemblages occupied a distinct elevational zone in the lagoon. | ||
| + | •Intertidal-high subtidal assemblages could predict the sea level change with ± 0.16 m. | ||
| + | •Low subtidal-deep water assemblages were deleterious on the TF giving a wide error. | ||
| + | •The pH controlled the distribution abundances of the symbiont-bearing assemblages. | ||
| + | <font size="2">([http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377839813000790 ABSTRACT]) | ||
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| + | ----Abu-Zied, R.H., Bantan, R.A., 2013. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377839813000790 Hypersaline benthic foraminifera from the Shuaiba Lagoon, eastern Red Sea, Saudi Arabia: Their environmental controls and usefulness in sea-level reconstruction]. Marine Micropaleontology 103, 51-67. | ||
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==DISTRIBUTION OF BENTHIC FORAMINIFERS OF THE BASQUE SHELF== | ==DISTRIBUTION OF BENTHIC FORAMINIFERS OF THE BASQUE SHELF== | ||
