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Significance of correspondence between river discharge and proloculus size of benthic foraminifera in paleomonsoonal studies

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Title Significance of correspondence between river discharge and proloculus size of benthic foraminifera in paleomonsoonal studies
 
Creator Nigam, R.
Khare, N.
 
Subject palaeo studies
monsoons
foraminifera
benthos
river discharge
size
 
Description Variations in the mean proloculus size (MPS) of the benthic foraminiferal species Rotalidium annectens were studied in a core collected off Karwar (20 m water depth), on the west coast of India. Comparison of downcore variations in the MPS with rainfall (five-year average) over a period of 100 years from the catchment area of the Kali River shows a direct correlation. This implies that higher MPS values indicate high rainfall over the catchment area and thus confirms the earlier hypothesis that the MPS is inversely related to salinity. The correspondence between MPS and rainfall shows a high potential in generating proximity data for the reconstruction of a paleo-precipitational history
 
Date 2009-01-25T06:16:59Z
2009-01-25T06:16:59Z
1995
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Geo-Marine Letters, Vol.15; 45-50p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/2383
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyright [1995]. All efforts have been made to respect the copyright to the best of our knowledge. Inadvertent omissions, if brought to our notice, stand for correction and withdrawal of document from this repository.
 
Publisher Springer