Holbourn / Henderson / Macleod Atlas of Benthic Foraminifera

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-45250-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 656 Seiten, E-Book

An up-to-date atlas of an important fossil and living group,with the Natural History Museum.
Deep-sea benthic foraminifera have played a central role inbiostratigraphic, paleoecological, and paleoceanographical researchfor over a century. These single-celled marine protists areimportant because of their geographic ubiquity, distinctionmorphologies and rapid evolutionary rates, their abundance anddiversity deep-sea sediments, and because of their utility asindicators of environmental conditions both at and below thesediment-water interface. In addition, stable isotopic dataobtained from deep-sea benthic foraminiferal tests providepaleoceanographers with environmental information that is provingto be of major significance in studies of global climaticchange.
This work collects together, for the first time, new morphologicaldescriptions, taxonomic placements, stratigraphic occurrence data,geographical distribution summaries, and palaeoecologicalinformation, along with state-of-the-art colour photomicrographs(most taken in reflected light, just as you would see them usinglight microscopy), of 300 common deep-sea benthic foraminiferaspecies spanning the interval from Jurassic - Recent. This volumeis intended as a reference and research resource for post-graduatestudents in micropalaeontology, geological professionals(stratigraphers, paleontologists, paleoecologists,palaeoceanographers), taxonomists, and evolutionary(paleo)biologists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holbourn, Ann

Henderson, Andrew S.

Macleod, Norman

Über Autor(innen)

Ann Holbourn is a paleoceanographer at the University ofKiel, Germany. Her main research interests focus on the evolutionand ecology of benthic foraminifera and their geochemicalapplications for reconstructing ocean circulation and climatechange over the Cretaceous and Cenozoic.
Andrew Henderson works in the oil and gas industry as aSenior Stratigrapher for Robertson, a CGG Company. After his PhDresearch into Jurassic foraminifera, Andrew joined the NaturalHistory Museum, London as a postdoctoral researcher andsubsequently became a curator in the Micropalaeontology Divisionwhere he has spent most of his career. He works with most groupsbut has special interest in the taxonomy of agglutinatedforaminifera and the biostratigraphy and systematics of benthonicforaminifera from the Middle East.
Norman MacLeod is the former Keeper of Palaeontology, andcurrent Dean of Post-Graduate Education & Training, at TheNatural History Museum, London. His main research interests includeevolutionary palaeobiology, the patterns and causes of ancientextinction events, stratigraphy, palaeoceanography, and theevolution of body form in organisms.