Biotically constrained palaeoenvironmental conditions of a mid-Holocene intertidal lagoon on the southern shore of the Arabian Gulf: evidence associated with a whale skeleton at Musaffah, Abu Dhabi, UAE
peer reviewed Whale remains (a left and right mandible, scapula, humerus and fragmentary radius and ulna as well as parts of the cranium and rostrum) belonging to a probable humpback whale (Megaptera cf. novaeangliae) were found in the well-described sabkha sequence exposed in the Musaffah Industria...
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ftorbi:oai:orbi.ulg.ac.be:2268/138821 2024-04-21T08:04:22+00:00 Biotically constrained palaeoenvironmental conditions of a mid-Holocene intertidal lagoon on the southern shore of the Arabian Gulf: evidence associated with a whale skeleton at Musaffah, Abu Dhabi, UAE Stewart, John Aspinall, S Beech, M Fenberg, P Hellyer, P Larkin, N Lokier, S.W. Marx, F.G. Meyer, M Miller, Rebecca Rainbow, P.S. Taylor, J.D. Whittaker, J.E. Al-Mehsin, K Strohmenger, C.J. 2011 https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/138821 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.09.004 en eng Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379111002836 urn:issn:0277-3791 urn:issn:1873-457X https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/138821 info:hdl:2268/138821 doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.09.004 scopus-id:2-s2.0-81155152744 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Quaternary Science Reviews, 30, 3675-3690 (2011) paleoenvironment Abu Dhabi whale Holocene Life sciences Environmental sciences & ecology Zoology Sciences du vivant Sciences de l’environnement & écologie Zoologie journal article http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 info:eu-repo/semantics/article peer reviewed 2011 ftorbi https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.09.004 2024-03-27T14:56:17Z peer reviewed Whale remains (a left and right mandible, scapula, humerus and fragmentary radius and ulna as well as parts of the cranium and rostrum) belonging to a probable humpback whale (Megaptera cf. novaeangliae) were found in the well-described sabkha sequence exposed in the Musaffah Industrial Channel, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. More precisely, the whale remains were found in a series of sediments representing a range of lagoonal facies. The sediments surrounding the whale bones were age-dated at approximately 5200 14C yrs BP and are herefore interpreted to correspond to the previously documented late Flandrian sea-level peak, receding a fall in sea-level which culminated in the supratidal sabkha overprint of the carbonates. associated with the whale remains is an assemblage of molluscs, foraminifera and ostracods. together with the inferred presence of sea grass and algae, these facies are interpreted to indicate a very shallow subtidal to intertidal lagoonal environment. Cirripede remains found associated with the skeleton were identified as those of the whale barnacle Coronula diadema and hence had their origins with the whale. Significantly, the low species diversity of microfossils suggests that higher salinities existed in the mid-Holocene lagoon than are present in modern counterparts. This is here inferred to be related to the onset of continental aridity in Arabia during the mid-Holocene. Article in Journal/Newspaper Humpback Whale University of Liège: ORBi (Open Repository and Bibliography) Quaternary Science Reviews 30 25-26 3675 3690 |
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paleoenvironment Abu Dhabi whale Holocene Life sciences Environmental sciences & ecology Zoology Sciences du vivant Sciences de l’environnement & écologie Zoologie Stewart, John Aspinall, S Beech, M Fenberg, P Hellyer, P Larkin, N Lokier, S.W. Marx, F.G. Meyer, M Miller, Rebecca Rainbow, P.S. Taylor, J.D. Whittaker, J.E. Al-Mehsin, K Strohmenger, C.J. Biotically constrained palaeoenvironmental conditions of a mid-Holocene intertidal lagoon on the southern shore of the Arabian Gulf: evidence associated with a whale skeleton at Musaffah, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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peer reviewed Whale remains (a left and right mandible, scapula, humerus and fragmentary radius and ulna as well as parts of the cranium and rostrum) belonging to a probable humpback whale (Megaptera cf. novaeangliae) were found in the well-described sabkha sequence exposed in the Musaffah Industrial Channel, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. More precisely, the whale remains were found in a series of sediments representing a range of lagoonal facies. The sediments surrounding the whale bones were age-dated at approximately 5200 14C yrs BP and are herefore interpreted to correspond to the previously documented late Flandrian sea-level peak, receding a fall in sea-level which culminated in the supratidal sabkha overprint of the carbonates. associated with the whale remains is an assemblage of molluscs, foraminifera and ostracods. together with the inferred presence of sea grass and algae, these facies are interpreted to indicate a very shallow subtidal to intertidal lagoonal environment. Cirripede remains found associated with the skeleton were identified as those of the whale barnacle Coronula diadema and hence had their origins with the whale. Significantly, the low species diversity of microfossils suggests that higher salinities existed in the mid-Holocene lagoon than are present in modern counterparts. This is here inferred to be related to the onset of continental aridity in Arabia during the mid-Holocene. |
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Stewart, John Aspinall, S Beech, M Fenberg, P Hellyer, P Larkin, N Lokier, S.W. Marx, F.G. Meyer, M Miller, Rebecca Rainbow, P.S. Taylor, J.D. Whittaker, J.E. Al-Mehsin, K Strohmenger, C.J. |
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Stewart, John Aspinall, S Beech, M Fenberg, P Hellyer, P Larkin, N Lokier, S.W. Marx, F.G. Meyer, M Miller, Rebecca Rainbow, P.S. Taylor, J.D. Whittaker, J.E. Al-Mehsin, K Strohmenger, C.J. |
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Biotically constrained palaeoenvironmental conditions of a mid-Holocene intertidal lagoon on the southern shore of the Arabian Gulf: evidence associated with a whale skeleton at Musaffah, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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Biotically constrained palaeoenvironmental conditions of a mid-Holocene intertidal lagoon on the southern shore of the Arabian Gulf: evidence associated with a whale skeleton at Musaffah, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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Biotically constrained palaeoenvironmental conditions of a mid-Holocene intertidal lagoon on the southern shore of the Arabian Gulf: evidence associated with a whale skeleton at Musaffah, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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Biotically constrained palaeoenvironmental conditions of a mid-Holocene intertidal lagoon on the southern shore of the Arabian Gulf: evidence associated with a whale skeleton at Musaffah, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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Biotically constrained palaeoenvironmental conditions of a mid-Holocene intertidal lagoon on the southern shore of the Arabian Gulf: evidence associated with a whale skeleton at Musaffah, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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biotically constrained palaeoenvironmental conditions of a mid-holocene intertidal lagoon on the southern shore of the arabian gulf: evidence associated with a whale skeleton at musaffah, abu dhabi, uae |
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