A review of the ecological and taphonomic controls on foraminiferal assemblage development in intertidal environments

A Berkeley, CT Perry, SG Smithers, BP Horton… - Earth-Science …, 2007 - Elsevier
Intertidal foraminifera from surface sediments are commonly used as a high-resolution
indicator of sea-level change. The integrity of this approach is based upon the assumption …

Great-earthquake paleogeodesy and tsunamis of the past 2000 years at Alsea Bay, central Oregon coast, USA

AR Nelson, Y Sawai, AE Jennings, LA Bradley… - Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
The width of plate-boundary fault rupture at the Cascadia subduction zone, a dimension
related to earthquake magnitude, remains uncertain because of the lack of quantitative …

[SÁCH][B] Quantifying Holocene sea-level change using intertidal foraminifera: lessons from the British Isles

BP Horton, RJ Edwards - 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Salt-marsh foraminifera have been used to reconstruct Holocene sea-level changes from
coastlines around the world. In this work, we compile the results of surface foraminiferal …

Marginal marine environments of the Skagerrak and Kattegat: a baseline study of living (stained) benthic foraminiferal ecology

E Alve, JW Murray - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 1999 - Elsevier
This is the first detailed investigation of the distribution and ecology of living (stained)
shallow water (0–6 m) foraminifera along the Skagerrak–Kattegat coast, eastern North Sea …

Distribution trends of foraminiferal assemblages in paralic environments: a base for using foraminifera as bioindicators

JP Debenay, JJ Guillou, F Redois, E Geslin - … : The application of …, 2000 - Springer
Increasing pollution by industrial, agricultural, and other anthropogenic chemicals makes it
ever more necessary to develop a thorough water management system. Chemical analyses …

Ecological transitions indicated by foraminiferal assemblages in paralic environments

JP Debenay, JJ Guillou - Estuaries, 2002 - Springer
The foraminiferal assemblages of about 1,500 samples collected worldwide in various types
of paralic environments, supplemented by selected published data, led to the determination …

Foraminifera as proxies for sea-level change on siliciclastic margins

RM Leckie, HC Olson - 2003 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Foraminifera of siliciclastic and mixed siliciclastic–carbonate continental margins are
sensitive to changes in sea level because of the complex biological, chemical, and physical …

Foraminifera, testate amoebae and diatoms as sea‐level indicators in UK saltmarshes: a quantitative multiproxy approach

WR Gehrels, HM Roe… - Journal of Quaternary …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The vertical distribution of foraminifera, testate amoebae and diatoms was investigated in
saltmarshes in the Taf estuary (south Wales), the Erme estuary (south Devon) and the …

Using foraminiferal transfer functions to produce high-resolution sea-level records from salt-marsh deposits, Maine, USA

WR Gehrels - The Holocene, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
Quantitative analyses of foraminiferal distributions along the coast of Maine are used to
provide transfer functions for reconstruction of sea-level changes from fossil foraminiferal …

Sediment (grain size and clay mineralogy) and organic matter quality control on living benthic foraminifera

ÉA Du Châtelet, V Bout-Roumazeilles… - Revue de …, 2009 - Elsevier
The paleoecological interpretation of fossil foraminiferal assemblages depends on an
understanding of the ecological processes operating at the present. This study investigates …