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- adjective
planktonic
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Examples
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She also found that all 52 species of a certain type of plankton (planktic foraminifera) in the region survived the meteor event.
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Our reconstruction is based on radiocarbon-dated records of diatom-based sea surface temperature and sea-ice proxies and planktic foraminiferal stable isotopes.
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Relative abundance variations of the planktic foraminifer Globigerinoides sacculifer and àŽàⲱ8O measured G. ruber white variety in core PBBC1 plotted against calibrated years.
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So far so good, the mass-disappearance of the Cretaceous planktic foraminifers at Brazos River coincides with the base of the event beds in Brazos River, as Schulte wrote.
Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit 2006
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In contrast, the carbon-13 shift and Ir anomaly both of which coincide with the first appearance of Danian planktic foramifera, nannofossils and dinoflagellates and faunal turnovers from Cretaceous to Paleocene assemblages well above the event deposit reliably mark the KT boundary.
Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit 2006
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Fluxes of planktic foraminifera in response to monsoonal upwelling on the Somalia Basin margin Deep-Sea Research II 47 2000 22072227
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Stratigraphic plots of relative abundance of selected planktic foraminifers, d18O for Globigerinoides ruber white variety and winter sea-surface temperature estimates in RC 12-10.
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At the K-T boundary, the mass extinction of tropical and subtropical planktic foraminifera marks a unique event.
Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit 2006
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Please note that particle fluxes are displaced by 2 weeks to account for the delay in shell production and settling of the planktic foraminifera.
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This KT clay and Ir anomaly also coincides with the mass extinction in planktic foraminifera and the first appearance of Tertiary species within a few cm above it.
Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit 2006
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