Recent benthic foraminiferal associations and ecology of the Scotia Sea and Argentine Basin

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 1-29

  Harloff, J ^a,b   Mackensen, A ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benthic; Ecology; Foraminifera; Recent; South Atlantic Ocean

Indexed keywords

AMMOBACULITES AGGLUTINANS; ANGULOGERINA ANGULOSA; ARGENTINA (FISH); CRIBROSTOMOIDES; CRIBROSTOMOIDES SUBGLOBOSUS; EGGERELLA BRADYI; EPISTOMINELLA EXIGUA; FORAMINIFERA; MARTINOTTIELLA COMMUNIS; NUTTALLIDES; PEREGRINA; PSAMMOSPHAERA FUSCA; REOPHAX; REOPHAX DIFFLUGIFORMIS; UVIGERINA PEREGRINA; NUTTALLIDES UMBONIFER;

BENTHIC ASSEMBLAGE; BENTHIC ASSEMBLAGES; ECOLOGY; FORAMINIFERA; FORAMINIFERA ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL ASSOCIATION; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALAEOCEAOGRAPHY; RECENT;

ATLANTIC, ARGENTINE BASIN; SCOTIA SEA;

EID: 0030618451     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(96)00059-X     Document Type: Article

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