Plankton Stratigraphy

by Edited by Hans M. Bolli , John B. Saunders , Katharina Perch-Nielsen

• ISBN13: 9780521367196
• ISBN10: 0521367190
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-06-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge of the biostratigraphy of marine plankton is the work of an international team of eighteen authors. It covers all the major fossil groups that can be used to date sediments and rocks in the time interval Late Mesozoic to Holocene. Altogether more than 3200 taxa are considered, almost all of which are illustrated and depicted on range charts, making the book a valuable work of reference in the earth sciences. For ease of reference by specialists interested in either calcareous or non-calcareous microfossils, the original work is now divided into two independent volumes. Volume 2 describes siliceous and other non-calcareous microfossils, covering radiolaria, diatoms, silicoflagellates, dinoflagellates and ichthyoliths.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Comparison of zonal schemes for different fossil groups

Introduction to the foraminiferal chapters

Cretaceous planktic foraminifera

Paleocene and Eocene planktic foraminifera

Oligocene to Holocene low latitude planktic foraminifera

Southern mid-latitude Paleocene to Holocene planktic foraminifera

Mediterranean Miocene and Pliocene planktic foraminifera

Late Oligocene and Miocene planktic foraminifera of the Central Paratethys

Mesozoic calcareous nannofossils

Cenozoic calcareous nannofossils

Calpionellids

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