The roles of elevation and salinity as primary controls on living foraminiferal distributions: Cowpen Marsh, Tees Estuary, UK

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 63, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 169-186

  Horton, Benjamin P ^a   Murray, John W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

elevation; foraminifera; salinity; salt marsh; sea level; time series; UK

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; ELEVATION; FORAMINIFERA; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRESERVATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SALINITY; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIDAL FLAT; TIME SERIES;

COWPEN MARSH; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; REDCAR AND CLEVELAND; TEES ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ELPHIDIUM WILLIAMSONI; FORAMINIFERA; HAYNESINA GERMANICA; JADAMMINA MACRESCENS; QUINQUELOCULINA; TROCHAMMINA INFLATA;

EID: 34247866187     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2006.11.006     Document Type: Article

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