- Description
- 1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps.
- Series Statement
- Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies series
- Uniform Title
- Benthic foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico (Online)
- Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies series.
- Alternative Title
- Benthic foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- Folded color map in pocket.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Ecology and distribution of predominant genera -- Introduction -- Environmental characteristics of the Gulf of Mexico -- Physiography and geology of the Gulf Coastal Plain -- Physiography of the gulf floor -- Climate -- Water mass stratification and current circulation -- Sediments of the gulf floor -- Marine biogeography -- Previous studies of gulf benthic foraminifera -- Generic predominance facies of modern gulf benthic foraminifera -- Estuarine biotopes -- Salt marshes -- Mangroves -- Florida Bay -- Charlotte Harbor -- Tampa Bay -- Apalachicola Bay -- St. Andrew Bay -- Choctawhatchee Bay -- Perdido Bay -- Mobile Bay -- Biloxi Bay -- Mississippi Sound -- East Mississippi Delta -- Lake Pontchartrain -- Timbalier Bay -- Sabine Lake -- Galveston Bay -- Matagorda Bay -- San Antonio Bay -- Aransas Bay -- Corpus Christi Bay -- Baffin Bay -- Laguna Madre (Texas) -- Laguna Madre (Tamaulipas) -- Laguna de Tamiahua -- Laguna Alvarado -- Laguna del Carmen -- Laguna de Terminos -- Estuarine summary -- Continental shelf biotopes -- Banks and reefs -- Shelf zones of hypoxia -- Continental slope biotopes -- Gyre intraslope basin -- Orca intraslope basin -- Campeche Canyon -- Cold hydrocarbon seeps -- Continental rise and Florida Plain biotopes -- Sigsbee Plain and Mississippi Fan biotopes -- Relationships between generic predominance facies and environmental properties -- Salinity -- Temperature -- Substrate -- Water mass composition -- Food supply, dissolved oxygen, and water clarity -- Bottom topography -- Holocene sea-level rise -- Generic predominance diversity -- Fossil foraminifera and paleoecological interpretation -- Conclusions -- Description and illustration of diagnostic species -- Taxonomy and distribution -- Plates: Scanning electron photomicrographs -- Appendix 1: Supplementary figures and tables -- Appendix 2: List of cosmopolitan benthic foraminiferal species -- Appendix 3: List of regional benthic foraminiferal species -- Appendix 4: List of endemic benthic foraminiferal species -- Appendix 5: List of relict benthic foraminiferal species.
- LCCN
- 2014016900
- OCLC
- ssj0001401472
- Author
Poag, C. Wylie.
- Title
Benthic foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico [electronic resource] : distribution, ecology, paleoecology / C. Wylie Poag.
- Imprint
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2015.
- Edition
First edition.
- Series
Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies series
Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies series.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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