Provenance and depositional history of continental slope sediments in the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico unraveled by geochemical analysis

JS Armstrong-Altrin, ML Machain-Castillo… - Continental Shelf …, 2015 - Elsevier
The aim of this work is to constrain the provenance and depositional history of continental
slope sediments in the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico (~ 1089–1785 m water depth). To …

Historical records of coastal eutrophication-induced hypoxia

AJ Gooday, F Jorissen, LA Levin, JJ Middelburg… - …, 2009 - bg.copernicus.org
Under certain conditions, sediment cores from coastal settings subject to hypoxia can yield
records of environmental changes over time scales ranging from decades to millennia …

Live benthic foraminiferal faunas from the French Mediterranean Coast: Towards a new biotic index of environmental quality

C Barras, FJ Jorissen, C Labrune, B Andral… - Ecological …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this study, living (Rose Bengal stained) foraminiferal faunas from 31 stations along the
entire French Mediterranean Sea coast except Corsica have been analysed. In the context …

Response of benthic foraminifera to organic matter quantity and quality and bioavailable concentrations of metals in Aveiro Lagoon (Portugal)

MVA Martins, F Silva, LLM Laut, F Frontalini… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
This work analyses the distribution of living benthic foraminiferal assemblages of surface
sediments in different intertidal areas of Ria de Aveiro (Portugal), a polihaline and …

Assessment of the health quality of Ria de Aveiro (Portugal): heavy metals and benthic foraminifera

VA Martins, F Frontalini, KM Tramonte… - Marine pollution …, 2013 - Elsevier
This work analyses the distribution of heavy metals in the sediments of Ria de Aveiro
(Portugal) assessed by total digestion and sequential chemical extraction of the sediments …

Environmental quality assessment of Bizerte Lagoon (Tunisia) using living foraminifera assemblages and a multiproxy approach

MV Alves Martins, N Zaaboub, L Aleya, F Frontalini… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
This study investigated the environmental quality of the Bizerte Lagoon (Tunisia) through an
integrated approach that combined environmental, biogeochemical, and living benthic …

Characterization of Colombian clay and its potential use as adsorbent

IF Macías-Quiroga, GI Giraldo-Gómez… - The Scientific World …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a mineralogical and physicochemical characterization of a Colombian
clay found in an area with the greatest exploitation potential of smectites and possible use …

Preparation, characterization and application in controlled release of Ibuprofen-loaded Guar Gum/Montmorillonite Bionanocomposites

J Dziadkowiec, R Mansa, A Quintela, F Rocha… - Applied Clay …, 2017 - Elsevier
Neutral guar gum-montmorillonite and cationic guar gum-montmorillonite nanocomposites
loaded with ibuprofen were prepared, and their ability to control in vitro release of the drug …

Ecological quality status of the NE sector of the Guanabara Bay (Brazil): A case of living benthic foraminiferal resilience

MVA Martins, J Hohenegger, M Martínez-Colón… - Marine Pollution …, 2020 - Elsevier
The ecological quality status of the NE region of the Guanabara Bay (SE Brazil), one of the
most important Brazilian embayments, is evaluated. For this purpose, sediment samples …

The Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum: new data on microfossil turnover at the Zumaia section, Spain

L Alegret, S Ortiz, X Orue-Etxebarria… - …, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The benthic foraminiferal turnover and extinction event (BEE) associated with the negative
carbon isotope excursion (CIE) across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is …