Salt marsh foraminifera from the Great Marshes, Massachusetts: Environmental controls

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 130, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 81-112

  De Rijk, S ^a   Troelstra, S R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Foraminifera; Paleo ecology; Salinity; Salt marsh; Sea level

Indexed keywords

BALTICAMMINA; BALTICAMMINA PSEUDOMACRESCENS; FORAMINIFERA; GADUS MORHUA; HAPLOPHRAGMOIDES MANILAENSIS; JADAMMINA MACRESCENS; LOBATA; MILIAMMINA FUSCA; SIPHOTROCHAMMINA LOBATA; TIPHOTROCHA COMPRIMATA;

FORAMINIFERA; PALAEOECOLOGY; SALINITY; SALT MARSH; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL;

USA, MASSACHUSETTS, GREAT MARSHES;

EID: 0030613445     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(96)00131-9     Document Type: Article

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