Foraminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth's History
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Foraminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth's History

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Foraminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth's History

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Foraminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth's History incorporates new findings on taxonomy, classification and biostratigraphy of foraminifera. Foraminifera offer the best geochemical proxies for paleoclimate and paleoenvironment interpretation. The study of foraminifera was promoted by oil exploration due to its exceptional use in subsurface stratigraphy. A rapid technological development in the past 20 years in the field of imaging microfossils and in geochemical microanalysis have added novel information about foraminifera.

Foraminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth's History builds an understanding of biology, morphology and classification of foraminifera for its varied applications. In the past two decades, a phenomenal growth has occurred in geochemical proxies in shells of foraminifera, and as a result, crucial information about past climate of the earth is achieved. Foraminifera is the most extensively used marine microfossils in deep-time reconstruction of the earth history. Its key applications are in paleoenvironment and paleoclimate interpretation, paleoceanography, and biostratigraphy to continuously improve the Geologic Time Scale.

  • Provides an overview of the Earth history as witnessed and evidenced by foraminifera
  • Discusses a variety of geochemical proxies used in reconstruction of environment, climate and paleobiology of foraminifera
  • Presents a new insight into the morphology and classification of foraminifera by modern tools of x-ray microscopy, quantitative methods, and molecular research

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Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2021
ISBN
9780128242308
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Geology & Earth Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Preface
  6. 1. Introduction
  7. 2. Biology and calcification
  8. 3. Morphology and classification
  9. 4. Evolution and extinction
  10. 5. The timekeeper of Earth’s history
  11. 6. The tracer of marine environment
  12. 7. Geochemical proxies of climate and environment
  13. 8. Signals of deep-time climate change
  14. 9. Isotope paleobiology and paleoecology
  15. 10. Foraminifera—witness of the evolving Earth
  16. Index