Recent Benthic Foraminifera from the Central Arctic Ocean.

• Main Author: Lagoe,Martin B.
• Other Authors: WISCONSIN UNIV MADISON
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1975
• Subjects: Biology; Biological Oceanography; Geology; Geochemistry and Mineralogy; *ARCTIC OCEAN; *FORAMINIFERA; *PALEONTOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THESES; MARINE BIOLOGY; MAPS; SALINITY; INVERTEBRATES; SEDIMENTS; ECOLOGY; PROTOZOA; RHIZOPODA; Eponides tumidulus; Triloculina frigida; Chilostomella elongata; Buliminella elegantissma; Stetsonia horvathi; Eponides tener; Epistominella arctica; *Paleoecology; Alpha Cordillera; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Canada Abyssal Plain; Central Arctic; Foraminifera*
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA022156; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA022156

Benthic Foraminifera are present in 97 of 118 samples taken from the central Arctic Ocean. Samples range in depth from 1069 to 3812 meters. Sixty-seven samples contained at least 300 specimens and are termed quantitative samples. The samples were secured from the top three centimeters of sediment co...