Foraminifera are free-living protozoa that grow an elaborate, solid calcite skeleton. Their well-marked evolutionary record makes them of outstanding value in zonal stratigraphy. The role of fossil planktonic foraminifera as markers for biostratigraphical zonation and correlation underpins most drilling of marine sedimentary sequences and is key to hydrocarbon exploration. Biostratigraphic and Geological Significance of Planktonic Foraminifera presents a comprehensive analysis of existing data on fossil planktonic foraminifera genera and their phylogenetic evolution in time and space. In addition, the book contains new, unpublished data on carbonate thin sections with identified fossil planktonic foraminifera from the Far East to offshore Brazil and South Africa. * The first book to synthesize the biostratigraphic and geological usefulness of planktonic foraminifera * Includes a discussion of the recent advances being enabled by molecular studies of living forms * Opens a new field of dating planktonic foraminifera in carbonates and expands their usefulness in hydrocarbon exploration
This second edition is substantially revised, including extensive re-analysis of the most recent work on Cenozoic forms.
The book will be essential reading for students and researchers working in basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy, palaeoceanography, palaeobiology and related fields.
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Neogene Planktonic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy of the South Central Java Area, Indonesia
The Deep Sea Drilling Project--a Decade of Progress
Neogene Planktonic Foraminifera: A Phylogenetic Atlas
Cenozoic Foraminifera and Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy of the Niger Delta is available just as exploration and production activities are moving into the little known deep water terrain of the Niger Delta.
This volume provides a comprehensive modern synthesis of the science of biostratigraphy.
"The 'Atlas of oligocene planktonic foraminifera' provides a comprehensive re-assessment of the taxonomy, evolutionary relationships, stratigraphic distributions, and paleoecology of planktonic foraminifera from the Oligocene Epoch. Our work is founded...
Sixty-seven species of Paleocene planktonic foraminifera are described and illustrated, including three species of Eoglobigerina, four species of Parasubbotina, five species of Subbotina, two species of Hedbergella, 10 species of...