Extraction of calcified Radiolaria and other calcified microfossils from micritic limestone utilizing acetic acid

Micropaleontology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 301-306

  Kariminia, Seyed Mohsen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION METHOD; MESOZOIC; MICRITE; MICROFOSSIL; RADIOLARIA; SAMPLE PREPARATION;

ALBIA; ANAS SP.; FORAMINIFERA; TITHONIA;

EID: 12444319358     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/50.3.301     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. BECKMANN, H., 1952. The use of acetic acids in micropaleontology. The Micropaleontologist, 6(3): 39.
2. BOURDON, M. 1957. Utilisation de l' acide acétique dans la désagrégation des roches dures. Rev. Inst. Fr. Petrole, 12( 1): 14-15.
3. GREEN, M., 1970. Recovering microvertebrates with acetic acid. Circular - South Dakota Geological Survey, 40: 1-11.
4. HAYNES, J. R., 1981. Foraminifra. Halsted Press, p. 14.
5. LETHIERS, F., CRASQUIN-SOLEAU, S., 1988. Comment extraire les microfossiles á tests calcitiques des roches calcaires dures. Revue de Micropaléontologie, 31: 56-61.
6. LIRER, F. , 2000. A new technique for retrieving calcareous microfossils from lithified lime deposits. Micropaleontology, 46: 365-369.
7. MOURA, J. C. et al., 1999. Using acids to extract calcareous microfossils from carbonate rocks. Micropaleontology, 45(4): 429-436.
8. MOURA, J. C. et al., 1996. An alternative method for extracting calcareous microfossils from carbonatic rocks. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, 68(2): 268-269.
9. PESSAGNO, E. A. Jr., Newport, R. L. 1972. A technique for extracting Radiolaria from radiolarian cherts. Micropaleontology, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 231-234.
10. REINHOLD, R. 1979. Stand und Methodik von Loesungstechniken an Karbonatgesteinen zur Gewinnung von Mikrofossilien. Der Praeparator 25(1): 15-21.
11. TUR, N. A., SMIRNOV, J. P., HUBER, B.T. 2001. Late Albian-Coniacian planktic foraminifera and Biostratigraphy of the north-eastern Caucasus. Cretaceous Research, 22: 719-734.