Changing components, rock textures, lithofacies, platform types and architecture throughout
time are unique characteristics of carbonate rocks. Characterizing these attributes has been …

The fossil record is the primary source of data used to study predator-prey interactions in
deep time and to evaluate key questions regarding the evolutionary and ecological …

The ability of vegetated coastal ecosystems to sequester high rates of “blue” carbon over
millennial time scales has attracted the interest of national and international policy makers …

Seagrasses are an organismal biological group united by their ability to grow in marine
environments. As marine flowering plants they have evolved a combined suite of …

Large benthic foraminifera (LBF) are important components of tropical shallow-marine
ecosystems, in which they are abundant on both coral reefs and in the inter-reef areas …

A study of the paleoenvironmental evolution of the middle Eocene platforms recognized in
the westernmost Tethys has been carried out in the well-exposed middle Eocene …

Large benthic Foraminifera (LBF) are major carbonate producers on coral reefs, and are
hosts to a diverse symbiotic microbial community. During warm episodes in the geological …

According to the prevailing view in literature, two Eocene carbonate platform belts
developed on northern and southern margins of the Tethys Ocean. However, Eocene …

Abstract The Paleocene-lower Eocene succession is well exposed in Sierra Espuña-Mula
Basin (Betic Cordillera, S Spain) and carbonate platforms are well represented as part of this …

Two stratigraphic sections located in the Latium-Abruzzi (Monte Porchio, Central Apennines,
Central Italy) and in the Apulian carbonate platform (S. Cesarea-Torre Tiggiano, Salento …