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Microfossils and Oceanic Environments, edited Alicia Moguilevsy and Robin Whatley
Micropalaeontology Research Group, Institute of Earth Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK
This volume represents the edited proceedings of a symposium on ODP and the Marine Biosphere, held at Aberystwyth, in association with the British Micropalaeontological Society in April 1994.
ISBN 0 903 878 74 7, 434 pages, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, May 1996,

Contents:

Chapter 1--Palaeoceanography--Benthos

1.1--R. Whatley, The bonds unloosed: the contribution of Ostracoda to our understanding of deep-sea events and processes

1.2--J. Schonfeld, The "Stilostomella Extinction", structure and dynamics of the last turnover in deep-sea benthic foraminiferal assemblages

1.3--T. Cronin, Deep water North Atlantic ostracods and Pliocene palaeoceanography (3.2-2.8 Ma) DSDP sites 610A and 607

1.4--S.C. King, R.B. Pearce, A.E.S. Kemp, J.C. Baldauf, and J.W. Murray, An integrated micropalaeontological study of mid Miocene, deep-sea laminated diatom ooze (ODP Leg 138 site 844)

1.5--W. Kuhnt, M. Moullade, M.A. Kaminsky, Lower Cretaceous foraminifera from DSDP and ODP sites of the Indian Ocean: a review and synthesis

Chapter 2--Palaeoceanography--Plankton

2.1--B.M. Funnell, S. Haslett, K. Kennington, J.E. Swallow, C. Kersley, Strangeness of the equatorial ocean during the Olduvai magnetosubchron

2.2--R. Jordan, Zhao Meixhun, G. Eglington, P.P.E. Weaver, Coccolith and alkenone stratigraphy and palaeoceanography at an upwelling site off NW Africa (ODP 658C) during the last 130,000 years

2.3--K.H. Baumann, H. Meggers, Palaeoceanographical change in the Labrador Sea during the last 3.1 MY: evidence from calcareous plankton records

2.4--S. Haslett, B.M. Funnell, Sea surface temperature variation and palaeo-upwelling throughout the Plio-Pleistocene Olduvai subchron of the eastern equatorial Pacific: an analysis of radiolarian data from ODP sites 677, 847, 850, and 851

2.5--A. Chepstow-Lusty, The last million years of the Discoasters: a global synthesis for the Upper Pliocene

2.6--H.J. Dowsett, Mid-Pliocene planktonic foraminiferal assemblages from ODP Site 704: palaeoceanographical implications

2.7--S. Damassa, G. Williams, Species diversity patterns in North Atlantic Eocene-Oligocene dinoflagellates

2.8--J. Pospichal, High latitude calcareous nannofossil changes at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the southern Indian Ocean

2.9--H. Okada, M. Matsuoka, Lower-photic nannoflora as an indicator of the late Quaternary monsoonal palaeo-record in the tropical Indian Ocean

Chapter 3--New techniques and applications

3.1--K. Darling, D. Kroon, C.M. Wade, A.J. Leigh Brown, The isolation and amplification of the 18S ribosomal RNA gene from planktonic foraminifers using gametogenic specimens

3.2--J.R. Young, M. Kucera, Hsiao-Wen Chung, Automated biometrics on captured light microscope images of coccoliths of Emiliana huxleyi

Chapter 4--Ecology

4.1--C.A. Maybury, A crevice fauna of foraminifera from the deep sea

4.2--D. van Harten, A case against Krithe as a tool to estimate the depth and oxygenation of ancient oceans

Chapter 5--Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy

5.1--M. Chapman, B.M. Funnell, P.P.E. Weaver, High reslution Pliocene planktonic foraminiferal biozonation of the tropical North Atlantic

5.2--A. Sanfilippo, C. Nigrini, Radiolarian biostratigraphy at the Oligocene/Miocene boundary

5.3--Norman MacLeod, Stratigraphical completeness and planktonic foraminiferal survivorship across the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) boundary

5.4--D. Watkins, S. Wise, J. Pospichal, J Crux, Upper Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and palaeoceanography of the Southern Ocean

Chapter 6--Evolution

6.1--J. Larwood, R. Whatley, I.D. Boomer, Seamount ostracod evolution: evidence from Horizon Guyot, Central Pacific Ocean (DSDP sites 144 and 171) and the Ninetyeast Ridge, East Indian Ocean (DSDP site 214)

6.2--I.D. Boomer, R. Whatley, Ostracod endemism on mid-Pacific guyots from ODP legs 143 and 144