How is ventilation at various depth layers of the Atlantic connected and what role do changes in ocean circulation play?

Benthic foraminifera are widely used as paleoenvironmental proxies because of their high sensitivity to environmental changes and excellent preservation potential in sediment. Affected by global ...

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

Large benthic foraminifera form a crucial part of marine communities from warm to tropical waters, especially in coral reefs. Remarkably, ...

One of my curatorial predecessors Randolf Kirkpatrick (1863-1950) thought that larger benthic foraminifera (LBFs) were so important that he published a theory that they were vital to the formation of ...

Kenneth G. Miller, Miriam E. Katz, Oligocene to Miocene Benthic Foraminiferal and Abyssal Circulation Changes in the North Atlantic, Micropaleontology, Vol. 33, No. 2 ... changes in the North Atlantic ...

An analysis of benthic foraminiferal morphotypes, based on test shape, mode of coiling and presence or absence of surface pores, was carried out on benthic foraminiferal data collected from the Gulf ...

"Benthic foraminifera represent truly successful microbial eukaryotes with diverse and sophisticated metabolic adaptive strategies" that scientists are just beginning to discover, ...

Their conclusions come from new measurements of carbon and oxygen isotopes found in the shells of tiny creatures, called benthic foraminifera or “forams,” that lived on the seafloor at the time.