Changing sea level is a major factor in the pattern of enrichment of organic carbon in marginal and epicontinental seas. Organiccarbon-rich facies accumulate preferentially during major transgressive episodes. Rising sea level promotes retention of nutrients in marginal seas through several possible mechanisms, leading to higher organic production and/or eutrophic conditions. Transgressive seas...

The distribution of benthic foraminifera across the Paleocene/Eocene (P/E) Boundary of the Contessa Road section allows us to compare the response of both calcareous hyaline and Deep Water Agglutinated Foraminiferal (DWAF) assemblages to the terminal Paleocene Benthic Extinction Event (BEE). The two groups are contemporaneously affected by the terminal Paleocene events. Quantitative analysis re...

In the most complete and first radiometrically dated Precambrian-Cambrian transition strata along the Khorbusuonka River in northern Siberia, a succession of fossilized traces of activity of the earliest infaunal animals has been identified. As supplemented by a similar record in Podolia, the Ukraine and elsewhere. This collection demonstrates that thus far all of the structurally identifiable ...

Samples from synchronized cultures of Rlastorlacliella e m e ~ s o n i i were examined by electron microscopy from t,he late log phase to the completioli of zoospore differentiation, Log-phase plants contain t,he usual cytoplasmic organelles but also have an unusual system of large tubules ca. 45 mp diam that ramify in organized bundles throughout the protoplast,. After induction, zoosporangium...