Martin Environmental Micropaleontology

The Application of Microfossils to Environmental Geology
2000
ISBN: 978-1-4615-4167-7
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 15, 481 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Topics in Geobiology

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Ronald E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I Baseline Studies of Foraminifera.- 1 When Does Environmental Variability Become Environmental Change? The Proxy Record of Benthic Foraminifera.- 2 Distribution Trends of Foraminiferal Assemblages in Paralic Environments: A Base for Using Foraminifera as Bioindicators.- II Water Quality in Modern Marine, Marginal Marine, and Freshwater Environments.- 3 Benthic Foraminifera as Bioindicators of Heavy Metal Pollution: A Case Study from the Goro Lagoon (Italy).- 4 Impact of Anthropogenic Environmental Change on Larger Foraminifera: Tarawa Atoll, Kiribati, South Pacific.- 5 Larger Foraminifera as Indicators of Coral-Reef Vitality.- 6 Ostracoda in Detection of Sewage Discharge on a Pacific Atoll.- 7 Ostracodes as Indicators of River Pollution in Northern Israel.- 8 Ostracoda as Indicators of Conditions and Dynamics of Water Ecosystems.- III Physiological Responses of Foraminifera to Pollution.- 9 Environmental Variation and Foraminiferal Test Abnormalities.- 10 Chemical Ecology of Foraminifera: Parameters of Health, Environmental Pathology, and Assessment of Environmental Quality.- IV Disturbance and Recovery Through Time.- 11 Use of Arcellacea (Thecamoebians) to Gauge Levels of Contamination and Remediation in Industrially Polluted Lakes.- 12 Sedimentary Diatoms and Chrysophytes as Indicators of Lakewater Quality in North America.- 13 Dinoflagellate Cysts as Indicators of Cultural Eutrophication and Industrial Pollution in Coastal Sediments.- 14 Environmental Stratigraphy: A Case Study Reconstructing Bottom Water Oxygen Conditions in Frierfjord, Norway, over the Past Five Centuries.- 15 Foraminifera of Storm-Generated Washover Fans: Implications for Determining Storm Frequency in Relation to Sediment Supply and Barrier Island Evolution, Folly Island, South Carolina.- 16 Benthic Foraminiferal Distributions in South Florida: Analogues to Historical Changes.- 17 Variation in Natural vs. Anthropogenic Eutrophication of Shelf Areas in Front of Major Rivers.- V Aquifers and Engineering.- 18 Establishing a Hydrostratigraphic Framework Using Palynology: An Example from the Savannah River Site, South Carolina.- 19 Construction of the Thames Barrier: An Application of Micropaleontology to the Solution of an Environmental Problem.