Experimental dissolution of a fossil foraminiferal assemblage (Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Dababiya, Egypt): Implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 73, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 241-258

  Nguyen, Thi Minh Phuong ^a   Petrizzo, Maria Rose ^b   Speijer, Robert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benthic foraminifera; Dababiya; Dissolution; Paleocene Eocene; Paleoenvironment; Planktic foraminifera; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DISSOLUTION; FORAMINIFERA; FOSSIL; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; TAPHONOMY;

AFRICA; DABABIYA QUARRY; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA; QENA;

ACARININA; ALABAMINA; CIBICIDOIDES; FORAMINIFERA; GAUDRYINA; LENTICULINA; MOROZOVELLA; SPIROLOCULINA; SUBBOTINA;

EID: 72149125036     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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