Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico: Distribution, Ecology, Paleoecology

C. Wylie Poag

Texas A&M University Press, Feb 9, 2015 - Science - 256 pages

In 1981, Woods Hole researcher C. Wylie Poag published the book Ecological Atlas of the Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico.

In this new volume, Poag has revised and updated the atlas, incorporating three decades of extensive data collections from the open Gulf and from an additional seventeen estuarine systems to cover species of benthic foraminifera from more than eight thousand sample stations. Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico features 68 plates of scanning electron photomicrographs, 64 color figures, and a large color foldout map, indicating species distribution of forams.

This book is designed to aid students and teachers of geology, biology, oceanography, and ecology, as well as micropaleontologists in government and industry laboratories, and other researchers and consultants who have an interest in benthic ecology or paleoecology.

Contents

• Part 1: 1
• Intro Enviornmental Characteristics of the Gulf of Mexico and Physiography and Geology of the Gulf Coastal Plain: 2
• Physiography of the Gulf Floor: 6
• Climate: 8
• Water Mass Statification and Current Circulation: 9
• Sediments of the Gulf Floor: 15
• Marine Biogeography: 16
• Previous Studies of Gulf Benthic Foraminifera: 19
• Generic Predominance Facies of Modern Gulf Benthic Foraminifera: 23
• Estuarine Biotopes: 27
• Salt Marshes: 28
• Mangroves: 29
• Florida Bay: 30
• Charlotte Harbor and Tampa Bay: 31
• Apalachicola Bay: 32
• St Andrew Bay: 33
• Choctawhatchee Bay Perdido Bay and Mobile Bay: 35
• Biloxi Bay and Mississippi Sound: 37
• East Mississippi Delta and Lake Pontchartrain: 39
• Timbalier Bay and Sabine Lake: 40
• Galveston Bay: 41
• Matagorda Bay: 42
• San Antonio Bay: 43
• Aransas Bay: 46
• Corpus Christi Bay: 47
• Baffin Bay and Laguna Madre Texas: 48
• Laguna Madre Tamaulipas and Laguna de Tamiahua: 49
• Laguna Alvarado and Laguna del Carmen: 53
• Laguna de Terminos: 54
• Estuarine Summary and Continental Shelf Biotopes: 55
• Banks and Reefs and Shelf Zones of Hypoxia: 58
• Continental Slope Biotopes: 59
• Gyre Intraslope Basin: 60
• Orca Intraslope Basin and Campeche Canyon: 62
• Cold Hydrocarbon Seeps: 63
• Continental Rise and Florida Plain Biotopes and Sigsbee Plain and Mississippi Fan Biotopes: 65
• Relationships Between Generic Predominance Facies and Environmental Properties and Salinity: 66
• Temperature and Substrate: 67
• Water Mass Composition and Food Supply Dissolved Oxygen and Water Clarity: 68
• Bottom Topography Holocene Sealevel Rise and Generic Predominance Diversity: 71
• Fossil Foraminifera and Paleoecological Interpretation: 73
• Conclusions: 77
• Part 2: 79
• Taxonomy and Distribution: 81
• Plates Scanning Electron Photomicrographs: 122
• Appendix 1: 191
• Appendix 2: 196
• Appendix 3: 200
• Appendix 4: 206
• Appendix 5: 207
• References: 209
• Index: 229
• Pullout Map: 244

About the author

C. WYLIE POAG is a retired senior research scientist with the US Geological Survey at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico: Distribution, Ecology, Paleoecology; Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series, Sponsored by the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
• Author: C. Wylie Poag
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press, 2015
• ISBN: 1623491959, 9781623491956
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Animals / Marine Life; Nature / Ecology; Science / Earth Sciences / Sedimentology & Stratigraphy