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It is called Globigerina, and some specimens of chalk consist of little else than Globigerina and granules.
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It is called Globigerina, and some specimens of chalk consist of little else than Globigerina and granules.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909
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It is called Globigerina, and some specimens of chalk consist of little else than Globigerinæ and granules.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV Various 1885
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The 'Globigerina' of the Atlantic soundings is identical with that which occurs in the chalk; and the casts of lower silurian
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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The ‘Globigerina’ of the Atlantic soundings is identical with that which occurs in the chalk; and the casts of lower silurian ‘Foraminifera’, which Ehrenberg has recently described, seem to indicate the existence at that remote period of forms singularly like those which now exist.
Essays 2007
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A combination of two marine sediment records from the Arabian Sea in which the percentage of the foraminifera Globigerina bulloides reflects the extent of ocean up-welling, which is determined by the strength of monsoons, which in turn indirectly reflect both summer and winter large-scale temperature changes through the differential seasonal heating and cooling of the Asian continent and surrounding oceans.
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Original description: A combination of two marine sediment records from the Arabian Sea [Gupta et al 2003; Overpeck et al 1996] in which the percentage of the foraminifera Globigerina bulloides reflects the extent of ocean up-welling, which is determined by the strength of monsoons, which in turn indirectly reflect both summer and winter large-scale temperature changes through the differential seasonal heating and cooling of the Asian continent and surrounding oceans [Overpeck et al 1996].
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For example, I note that you have included the Arabian Sea: Globigerina bulloides proxy, but not the Sargasso Sea dO18 proxy.
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Brummer, Gerald Ganssen 2002, The effect of upwelling on the distribution and stable isotope composition of Globigerina bulloides and Globigerinoides ruber (planktic foraminifera) in modern surface waters of the NW Arabian Sea, Global and Planetary Change 34 (2002) 269–291 state:
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(H) Abundances of the foraminifer Globigerina bulloides in Cariaco Basin sediments are higher during glacial advances indicating stronger trade winds (20).
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