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Foraminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth’s History
Foraminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth’s History incorporates new findings on taxonomy, classification and biostratigraphy of foraminifera. Foraminifera offer the best geochemical proxies for paleoclimate and paleoenvironment interpretation. The study of foraminifera was promoted by oil exploration due to its exceptional use in subsurface stratigraphy. A rapid technological development in the past 20 years in the field of imaging microfossils and in geochemical microanalysis have added novel information about foraminifera.

Foraminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth’s History builds an understanding of biology, morphology and classification of foraminifera for its varied applications. In the past two decades, a phenomenal growth has occurred in geochemical proxies in shells of foraminifera, and as a result, crucial information about past climate of the earth is achieved. Foraminifera is the most extensively used marine microfossils in deep-time reconstruction of the earth history. Its key applications are in paleoenvironment and paleoclimate interpretation, paleoceanography, and biostratigraphy to continuously improve the Geologic Time Scale.

Provides an overview of the Earth history as witnessed and evidenced by foraminifera
Discusses a variety of geochemical proxies used in reconstruction of environment, climate and paleobiology of foraminifera
Presents a new insight into the morphology and classification of foraminifera by modern tools of x-ray microscopy, quantitative methods, and molecular research

Foraminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth’s History 1st Table of contents:

 1. Introduction
Abstract
1.1 Historical background
1.2 Foraminifera records the Earth’s history
1.3 Reading the fossil records
References
2. Biology and calcification
Abstract
2.1 Biology of foraminifera
2.2 Calcification
2.3 Role of photosymbiosis in calcification
2.4 Chemical microenvironment of symbiont-bearing foraminifera
2.5 Carbon budget in foraminifera
References
3. Morphology and classification
Abstract
3.1 Growth and basic morphology
3.2 Modeling of foraminiferal shells
3.3 Biometry of foraminifera
3.4 3-D reconstruction by X-ray microtomography
3.5 Classification of foraminifera
References
4. Evolution and extinction
Abstract
4.1 Origin of foraminifera
4.2 Evolution of planktic foraminifera
4.3 Evolution of larger benthic foraminifera
4.4 Deep-sea benthic foraminifera
References
5. The timekeeper of Earth’s history
Abstract
5.1 Time and biostratigraphy
5.2 Planktic foraminiferal zones
5.3 Shallow benthic zones
5.4 Time resolution and synchrony
References
6. The tracer of marine environment
Abstract
6.1 Distribution of living foraminifera
6.2 Oxygen-depleted habitat
6.3 Productivity and biological pump
6.4 Contribution to global marine carbonate
References
7. Geochemical proxies of climate and environment
Abstract
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Fundamental questions in geochemical proxies
7.3 Oxygen and carbon isotopes
7.4 Other stable isotopes
7.5 Mg/Ca in foraminifera
7.6 Trace elements in foraminifera
7.7 Use of multiple proxies
References
8. Signals of deep-time climate change
Abstract
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Late Cretaceous greenhouse climate
8.3 Eocene hyperthermal events
8.4 Cooling at Eocene–Oligocene transition
8.5 The last ice-age
References
9. Isotope paleobiology and paleoecology
Abstract
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Isotopic evidence of life history
9.3 Process of evolution
9.4 Evolutionary paleoecology
References
10. Foraminifera—witness of the evolving Earth
Abstract
10.1 Oceanic controls on modern foraminifera
10.2 Speciation and models of evolution
10.3 Climate and macroevolution
10.4 Sea-level change
10.5 Ocean anoxia
10.6 Catastrophes in the history of life
10.7 Thermal stress and ocean acidification
References
Index

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