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Indigenous and Exotic Foraminifera in the Coralline Crag of Sutton, Suffolk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

D. J. Carter
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Abstract

The effects of current action on the distribution of foraminiferal tests are discussed and evaluated. The distributions of current- drifted and indigenous foraminiferal tests are compared and contrasted. A simple method of plotting abundance data facilitating differentiation between current-drifted and indigenous forms has been developed and applied to assemblages from the Pliocene Coralline Crag of Sutton, Suffolk. It has been found that these assemblages do not represent the original biocoenoses, but consist largely of exotic forms.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 88 , Issue 4 , August 1951 , pp. 236 - 248
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1951

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