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The Micropalaeontological Society Foram. Group Spring Meeting will
take place in the Palaeontology Department of The Natural History
Museum, London.
Friday 3rd May, 2002.
All welcome.
More details and abstracts are published on the society web-site -
http:/www.tmsoc.org
All welcome.
Programme:
12:45 - 13:00 Welcome, Opening Remarks - Andy Henderson.
13:00 - 13:15 Seasonality and Benthic Foraminifera - Bill Austin.
13:15 - 13:30 An Experiment to Determine if the Foraminiferan
Haynesina germanica Consumes Sewage-Derived Organic Matter, Using
Fatty Acid and Sterol (Coprostanol) Biomarkers. - Juliette N. Ward,
John W. Murray, David W. Pond.
13:30 - 13:45 Selective Feeding by Benthic Foraminifera on Labile
Phytodetritus on the Western Antarctic Peninsula Shelf (500m Water
Depth): Evidence from Fatty Acid Biomarker Analysis - Suhr, S. B.,
Pond, D. W., Gooday, A. J. & Smith, C. R.
13:45 - 14:00 The Relative Uptake of 13C by Intertidal Benthic
Foraminifera Feeding on 13C-Enriched Benthic Diatoms. - Heather
Austin.
14:00 - 14:15 Benthic Foraminifera Scaling Flux and Decomposition
of Organic Material in Slope to Deep-Sea Sediments from the
Northeastern Atlantic. - Joachim Schoenfeld.
14:15 - 14:30 Break
14:30 - 14:45 The Distribution of the Xenophyophore Syringammina
fragilissima in the Northeast Atlantic and its Influence on the
Diversity of Bathyal Foraminiferal Assemblages. - Hughes, J.A &
Gooday, A.J.
14:45 - 15:00 On the Stratigraphic and Palaeobiogeographic
Significance of Borelis melo (Fichtel & Moll, 1798) and its
Subspecies (Foraminifera, Miliolida, Alveolinidae). - R.W. Jones,
M.D. Simmons & J.E. Whittaker.
15:00 - 15:15 Miocene Deep Water Agglutinated Foraminifera from the
Gulf of Mexico. - R.C.Green, M.A.Kaminski, P.J.Sikora.
15:30 - 15:45 Holocene History of an Enclosed Basin on the Shelf
West of Scotland. - John Murray.
15:45 - 16:00 Climatic Influence on Sediment Transport in the
Mediterranean Outflow Current (Gulf of Cadiz, Spain). - Mike Rogerson.
16:00 - 16:15 Break
16:15 - 16:30 Size in Planktic Foraminiferal Assemblages. -
Schmidt, D. N., Renaud, S., Bollmann, J. and Thierstein, H. R.
16:30 - 17:00 Biodiversity Unmasked: Cryptic Species of
Globigerinella siphonifera can be Reliably Discriminated in the
Fossil Record. - Steel, B.A, Kucera, M., Darling, K.F. and Wade, C.M.
17:00 - 17:15 Palaeoecology of Some Extreme 'Clavate' Planktonic
Foraminifera from the Cretaceous to Recent. - Coxall H. K., Wilson,
P. A. and Pearson, P. N.
17:15 - 17:30 Orbital Control of Late Pliocene Planktonic
Foraminiferal Biogeographic Patterns. - Philip Sexton.
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Dr. Andrew S. Henderson,
Foraminifera Group Chair,
The Micropalaeontological Society.
Department of Palaeontology,
The Natural History Museum,
Cromwell Road, LONDON, SW7 5BD.
E-mail: A.Henderson@nhm.ac.uk
Tel.: +44 (0)20 7942 5684 (direct)
Dept. Fax.: +44 (0)20 7942 5546
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