Miocene paleoenvironmental evolution based on benthic foraminiferal assemblages in the Lufeng Sag, northern South China Sea

Deep-water paleoenvironmental changes based on early-middle Miocene benthic foraminifera from Malta Island (Central Mediterranean)

“…Benthic foraminifera are useful tool to detect and monitor the modern and past deep water-mass ocean circulation (e.g. Bernhard and Sen Gupta, 1999;Jorissen, 1999;Loubere and Fariduddin, 1999;Kouwenhoven and van der Zwaan, 2006;Sarkar and Gupta, 2009;Mourik et al, 2011;Eichler et al, 2016;Rathburn et al, 2018;Xue et al, 2019) and relationship with chemical and physical features of deep water masses was highlighted by several authors (e.g. Smart and Ramsay, 1995;Schmiedl et al, 1997;Yasuda, 1997;Bellanca et al, 2002;Sprovieri et al, 2004;Jorissen et al, 2007;Russo et al, 2007;Pérez-Asensio et al, 2012).…”