The stratigraphy and mineralogy of Balambo Formation (Aptian - Cenomanian) in exposed surface section near Chomabrok village the Imbrication zone, northeastern Iraq is studied. 450 meters thick consists thin to medium bedded yellowish-brown, black dark gray limestones, marly with thin- bedded, grayish marl shale, bands cherts abundant nodules lenses. From field observations petrographic studies...

The Ortaköy-Barcın Plateau Cretaceous sequence is located in the Antalya nappes outcropping throughout Akseki-Güzelsu-Köprülü which northern of Gündoğmuş (Antalya). begins with Albian limestones containing mainly Pseudonummoloculina aurigerica, Praechrysalidina infracretacea, Nezzazata isabellae, Trochamminoides coronus, Glomospira urgoniana, Vercorsella arenata, Cuneolina parva and they are co...

Sediment cores were collected from three sites (1000-1200 m water depth) in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico from December 2010 to June 2011 to assess changes in benthic foraminiferal density related to the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) event (April-July 2010, 1500 m water depth). Short-lived radioisotope geochronologies (²¹⁰Pb, ²³⁴Th), organic geochemical assessments, and redox metal concentrations w...

Foraminiferal stable isotopes and assemblages from Franz Victoria and St. Anna troughs provide a valuable record of freshwater and Atlantic Water flows to the northern Barents and Kara seas from deglaciation to present. The dO and dC of planktonic Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (s) and benthic Elphidium excavatum were up to 1.4% lower than present at ca 13, 11.5, and 10 Cka (global sea-level corre...

This paper describes and characterises the co-occurrence of ammonite and benthic foraminiferal assemblages across the São Gião outcrop (Central Portugal), a reference section for the Lower-Middle Jurassic boundary in the Lusitanian Basin. The upper Toarcian-lower Aalenian marls and marly-limestones in this section provide a precise and detailed ammonitebased biostratigraphic zonation, with a mi...

Cephalopods (nautiluses, cuttlefishes, squids and octopuses) exhibit direct development and display two major developmental modes: planktonic and benthic. Planktonic hatchlings are small and go through some degree of morphological changes during the planktonic phase, which can last from days to months, with ocean currents enhancing their dispersal capacity. Benthic hatchlings are usually large,...

We studied Upper Cretaceous and Lower Paleogene benthic foraminifera from the Agost section (southeastern Spain) to infer paleobathymetrical changes and paleoenvironmental turnover across the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/P) transition. Benthic foraminifera indicate uppermost bathyal depths at Agost during the Abathomphalus mayaroensis Biochron (from about 400 kyr before the K/P boundary) through the...

We studied Upper Cretaceous and Lower Paleogene benthic foraminifera from the Agost section (southeastern Spain) to infer paleobathymetrical changes and paleoenvironmental turnover across the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/P) transition. Benthic foraminifera indicate uppermost bathyal depths at Agost during the Abathomphalus mayaroensis Biochron (from about 400 kyr before the K/P boundary) through the...

Larger benthic foraminifera (LBF) are common and diverse throughout the Paleogene sediments of southern Tanzania, but have previously been little studied. A recent programme of onshore drilling known as the Tanzania Drilling Project has recovered large proportion of this succession for palaeoclimatic and palaeontological study. The sediment is largely a hemipelagic clay with secondary gravity s...