Age Structure of Holocene Coastal Sediments: Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia

Calcareous Nannofossils in Holocene Surface Sediments of the Persian Gulf

The effect of the paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental changes on the structure of the bioticcommunities are stronger and better recorded in the shelf area than in the open sea. The present study isdevoted to impact of climatic events on some species of calcareous nannofossils. For this reason, 17samples of surface sediments of the Persian Gulf were studied. Preservation of calcareous nannofoss...

Sawfishes (Pristidae) from the Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia: a summary of fishery derived data

Two tropical species of Stephanotheca (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata, Lanceoporidae) from the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia.

Two new species of Stephanotheca are described from the southeast Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia, providing the first tropical records of this genus. Stephanotheca ipsum n. sp. is provisionally placed in the genus on the basis of a low ridge of calcification around the edge of the ooecium, which differs from the fully pseudoporous ooecium of Calyptotheca (Lanceoporidae) and resembles t...

Study of Metals Concentrations in Surface Sediments of the Persian Gulf Coastal Area (Bushehr Province)

Since heavy metals are considered as one of the major pollutants threatening, the main goal of this study was to bring out the concentrations of Pb, Zn and Mn in the surface sediments off Bushehr in the Persian Gulf. For this purpose, after collection of samples, the concentrations of the three metals in surface sediments were measured through the atomic absorption. The results were compared wi...

Mangrove response to environmental change in Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria

Across their range, mangroves are responding to coastal environmental change. However, separating the influence of human activities from natural events and processes (including that associated with climatic fluctuation) is often difficult. In the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia (Leichhardt, Nicholson, Mornington Inlet, and Flinders River catchments), changes in mangroves are assumed to ...