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Laboratory experiment to record rate of movement of cultured benthic foraminifera

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Title Laboratory experiment to record rate of movement of cultured benthic foraminifera
 
Creator Khare, N.
Nigam, R.
 
Subject marine environment
benthic foraminifera
 
Description Sensitivity of foraminifera towards environmental / climatic changes, makes them a distinct proxy of paleoclimatic conditions. In order to use these micro organisms for paleoclimatic reconstruction, their response in the modern marine environment and in culture under laboratory condition, needs to be well studied. Accordingly, recently a laboratory culturing of benthic foraminifera has been initiated. As a continuation of this program, an experiment on cultured foraminifera to study the speed of movement of benthic foraminifera on glass surface of petridish was performed. The first order result of this study has provided initial estimates for rate of movement which varied from 0.034 to 0.139 millimeter/minute. Such laboratory measurements after much refinement, coupled with the field studies may be of use to model bioturbation and sediment dynamics in coastal regions.
 
Date 2006-09-25T07:05:57Z
2006-09-25T07:05:57Z
2000
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier ONGC Bulletin, vol.37(1), 53-61p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/418
 
Language en
 
Format 112352 bytes
application/pdf
 
Publisher ONGC, India