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- noun Plural form of
foraminifer .
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This is assessed by transient deficit in these same isotopes in sea surface water from where foraminifers get part of their O for calcareous tests CaCO3 and organic maters, the other part coming from dissolved CO2.
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I have done this to have my observations tested and to see if someone else could find foraminifers where I could not.
Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit 2006
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Yet this is NOT the case at the K/T stratotype (GSSP) in Tunisia, where the first occurrence of Paleocene foraminifers is 5-20 cm (depending on who is cited), probably thousands of years above the K/T boundary.
Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit 2006
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Keller, now for the first time, admits that all the calcite tests of her foraminifers in that critical interval were replaced by dolomite 3.
Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit 2006
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However, Michele Caron has ample experience in identifying foraminifers in thin sections from the metamorphic “schistes lustrés” and she may have found a way to identify badly preserved specimens.
Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit 2006
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It is Keller, Adatte and Harting that make the crucial error of placing the K/T boundary at the first appearance of the Paleocene foraminifers, neglecting “globally accepted criteria”
Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit 2006
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But even if these forms turn out to be true foraminifers – and Arz et al 2004 have shown that there are a few reworked specimens in that core interval – then those occur in a cross-bedded sandstone and are, therefore, by definition reworked, and cannot be used for biostratigraphy.
Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit 2006
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The K/T boundary does coincide, like elsewhere, EXACTLY with the mass-extinction of the vast majority of Maastrichtian foraminifers.
Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit 2006
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Neither has she ever shown any inclination to have her so-called Maastrichtian foraminifers 1 in the Yaxcopoil-1 core in the Chixulub crater tested.
Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit 2006
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As for biostratigraphy, the mass-extinction of foraminifers and nannofossils approximates the K/T boundary much more accurate.
Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit 2006
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