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Factors driving sediment compositional change in the distal area of the Ria de ...

We analyze potential Late Holocene metal contamination along a sediment core collected in the distal zone of Ria de Vigo (North Spain). Statistical treatment of the dataset based on a multiproxy approach enabled us to identify and disentangle factors influencing the depositional processes and the preservation of the records of this activity in the area over the last ≈3000 years BP. Some layers of the analyzed c...

Factors driving sediment compositional change in the distal area of the Ria de ...

We analyze potential Late Holocene metal contamination along a sediment core collected in the distal zone of Ria de Vigo (North Spain). Statistical treatment of the dataset based on a multiproxy approach enabled us to identify and disentangle factors influencing the depositional processes and the preservation of the records of this activity in the area over the last approximate to 3000 years BP. Some layers of ...

Impact of the middle eocene climatic optimum (MECO) on foraminiferal and calcar...

Dissimilarity between living and dead benthic foraminiferal assemblages in the ...

This study compares living (LA) and dead (DA) benthic foraminiferal assemblages and identifies different factors that possibly cause differences in the distribution of both assemblages in the Aveiro Continental Shelf (Portugal). A total of 44 sediment samples was collected during summers of 1994 and 1995 along transects (east-west direction) and between 10 and 200 m water depth. Complex statistical analyses all...

Influence of dominant wind patterns in a distal region of the NW Iberian Margin...

This work combines planktonic foraminiferal assemblages, stable isotope, transfer function estimated sea surface paleotemperatures (SST) and export productivity (Pexp) with sedimentological records from the PC7 core to document paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic changes on a distal region of the NW Iberian Margin since the last glaciation (<≈68 ka). Neodymium and strontium isotope data are also used to identif...

Environmental controls on the distribution of living (stained) benthic foramini...

Living (stained) benthic foraminifera from deep-sea stations in the Campos Basin, southeastern Brazilian continental margin, were investigated to understand their distribution patterns and ecology, as well as the oceanographic processes that control foraminiferal distribution. Sediments were collected from 1050 m to 1950 m of water depth during the austral winter of 2003, below the Intermediate Western Boundary...

Comparison between the dead and living benthic foraminiferal assemblages in Ave...

This work provides a comparison between living (LAs) and dead (DAs) benthic foraminiferal assemblages in 53 sampled sites located in intertidal and subtidal areas of Ria de Aveiro (Portugal). The results of multivariate statistical analysis provide evidence for the main factors that control the distribution of DAs and LAs, which seems to correspond to different gradients of marine/continental influence, conditi...

Atlantic sea surface temperatures estimated from planktonic foraminifera off th...

Sea surface temperatures (SSTs)were reconstructed fromplanktonic foraminiferal assemblages in two sediment cores off the NWIberian Continental Margin for the last 40 kyr. Results of this work were compared with published SSTs estimated in six cores from the Iberian Margin and the δ18O data from NGRIP ice core of Greenland. Longitudinal and latitudinal SST changes were identified in several intervals related to ...

Characterization of bottom hydrodynamic conditions on the central western Portu...

Dead benthic foraminiferal assemblages from the central western Portuguese continental shelf have been studied to identify the prevalent oceanographic processes in the study area. Sediment samples collected at 46 stations along transepts perpendicular to the coastal line, between the latitudes of 38-40 degrees N and 17-190 m water depth, in April/May 2008, were analysed for selected physicochemical parameters (...

Response of Benthic Foraminifera to organic matter quantity and quality and bio...

This work analyses the distribution of living benthic foraminiferal assemblages of surface sediments in different intertidal areas of Ria de Aveiro (Portugal), a polihaline and anthropized coastal lagoon. The relationships among foraminiferal assemblages in association with environmental parameters (temperature, salinity, Eh and pH), grain size, the quantity and quality of organic matter (enrichment in carbohyd...