Biostratigraphic and Geological Significance of Planktonic Foraminifera

by: Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel

Biostratigraphic and Geological Significance of Planktonic Foraminifera
Author: Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel

Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd

Series: Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 07 September 2012

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ISBN: 0444536388 ISBN 13: 9780444536389

Biostratigraphic and Geological Significance of Planktonic Foraminifera by Marcelle K. BouDagher-Fadel

Presents a comprehensive analysis of existing data on fossil planktonic foraminifera genera and their phylogenetic evolution in time and space. This title helps to synthesize the biostratigraphic and geological usefulness of planktonic foraminifera. It includes a discussion of the advances being enabled by molecular studies of living forms. Top page

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Foraminifera are free-living protozoa that grow an elaborate, solid calcite skeleton. Their well-marked evolutionary record makes them of outstanding value in zonal stratigraphy. The role of fossil planktonic foraminifera as markers for biostratigraphical zonation and correlation underpins most drilling of marine sedimentary sequences and is key to hydrocarbon exploration. "Biostratigraphic and Geological Significance of Planktonic Foraminifera" presents a comprehensive analysis of existing data on fossil planktonic foraminifera genera and their phylogenetic evolution in time and space. In addition, the book contains new, unpublished data on carbonate thin sections with identified fossil planktonic foraminifera from the Far East to offshore Brazil and South Africa. This is the first book to synthesize the biostratigraphic and geological usefulness of planktonic foraminifera. It includes a discussion of the recent advances being enabled by molecular studies of living forms. It opens a new field of dating planktonic foraminifera in carbonates and expands their usefulness in hydrocarbon exploration. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Elsevier Science Ltd

City: Oxford

Pages: 312

More info: height 246 mm width 189 mm weight 1043 gr thickness 20 mm

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 561.994 Library of Congress Subject: Foraminifera, Fossil

Departments: Environmental engineering & technology; Oceanography (seas);

Record updated at: 20 May, 2013 time: 18:32


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