Foraminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth’s History
- 1st Edition - June 12, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Pratul Kumar Saraswati
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 9 5 7 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 4 2 3 0 - 8
Foraminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth’s History incorporates new findings on taxonomy, classification and biostratigraphy of foraminifera. Foraminifera offer the… Read more
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Request a sales quoteForaminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth’s History incorporates new findings on taxonomy, classification and biostratigraphy of foraminifera. Foraminifera offer the best geochemical proxies for paleoclimate and paleoenvironment interpretation. The study of foraminifera was promoted by oil exploration due to its exceptional use in subsurface stratigraphy. A rapid technological development in the past 20 years in the field of imaging microfossils and in geochemical microanalysis have added novel information about foraminifera.
Foraminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth’s History
builds an understanding of biology, morphology and classification of foraminifera for its varied applications. In the past two decades, a phenomenal growth has occurred in geochemical proxies in shells of foraminifera, and as a result, crucial information about past climate of the earth is achieved. Foraminifera is the most extensively used marine microfossils in deep-time reconstruction of the earth history. Its key applications are in paleoenvironment and paleoclimate interpretation, paleoceanography, and biostratigraphy to continuously improve the Geologic Time Scale.- Provides an overview of the Earth history as witnessed and evidenced by foraminifera
- Discusses a variety of geochemical proxies used in reconstruction of environment, climate and paleobiology of foraminifera
- Presents a new insight into the morphology and classification of foraminifera by modern tools of x-ray microscopy, quantitative methods, and molecular research
Geologists, marine geologists, geochemists, and paleoceanographers, professionals in subsurface exploration and paleoclimate research. Exploration geologists and oil and gas companies
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- Abstract
- 1.1 Historical background
- 1.2 Foraminifera records the Earth’s history
- 1.3 Reading the fossil records
- References
- 2. Biology and calcification
- Abstract
- 2.1 Biology of foraminifera
- 2.2 Calcification
- 2.3 Role of photosymbiosis in calcification
- 2.4 Chemical microenvironment of symbiont-bearing foraminifera
- 2.5 Carbon budget in foraminifera
- References
- 3. Morphology and classification
- Abstract
- 3.1 Growth and basic morphology
- 3.2 Modeling of foraminiferal shells
- 3.3 Biometry of foraminifera
- 3.4 3-D reconstruction by X-ray microtomography
- 3.5 Classification of foraminifera
- References
- 4. Evolution and extinction
- Abstract
- 4.1 Origin of foraminifera
- 4.2 Evolution of planktic foraminifera
- 4.3 Evolution of larger benthic foraminifera
- 4.4 Deep-sea benthic foraminifera
- References
- 5. The timekeeper of Earth’s history
- Abstract
- 5.1 Time and biostratigraphy
- 5.2 Planktic foraminiferal zones
- 5.3 Shallow benthic zones
- 5.4 Time resolution and synchrony
- References
- 6. The tracer of marine environment
- Abstract
- 6.1 Distribution of living foraminifera
- 6.2 Oxygen-depleted habitat
- 6.3 Productivity and biological pump
- 6.4 Contribution to global marine carbonate
- References
- 7. Geochemical proxies of climate and environment
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Fundamental questions in geochemical proxies
- 7.3 Oxygen and carbon isotopes
- 7.4 Other stable isotopes
- 7.5 Mg/Ca in foraminifera
- 7.6 Trace elements in foraminifera
- 7.7 Use of multiple proxies
- References
- 8. Signals of deep-time climate change
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Late Cretaceous greenhouse climate
- 8.3 Eocene hyperthermal events
- 8.4 Cooling at Eocene–Oligocene transition
- 8.5 The last ice-age
- References
- 9. Isotope paleobiology and paleoecology
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Isotopic evidence of life history
- 9.3 Process of evolution
- 9.4 Evolutionary paleoecology
- References
- 10. Foraminifera—witness of the evolving Earth
- Abstract
- 10.1 Oceanic controls on modern foraminifera
- 10.2 Speciation and models of evolution
- 10.3 Climate and macroevolution
- 10.4 Sea-level change
- 10.5 Ocean anoxia
- 10.6 Catastrophes in the history of life
- 10.7 Thermal stress and ocean acidification
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 12, 2021
- No. of pages (Paperback): 340
- No. of pages (eBook): 340
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128239575
- eBook ISBN: 9780128242308
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Pratul Kumar Saraswati
Pratul Saraswati has been a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay since 1988, teaching Micropaleontology and Petroleum Geology to postgraduate students. His research area is focused on foraminifera for biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental interpretation of Cenozoic marine sequences. Dr. Saraswati has written more than 90 papers in scientific journals and chapters in edited volumes. He has served or still serves as an expert member and in advisory capacity with several research funding agencies, research institutes, and educational institutions.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, IndiaRead Foraminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth’s History on ScienceDirect