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Alaska
Alexander D. Ullrich
Dept. of Geology
Appalachian St. University
Boone, NC
Field Setting:
•Yakutat Bay, Alaska
•Hubbard Glacier-
•Tidewater glacier emptying into
Disenchantment Bay, AK.
•High turbidity: high sed. discharge Study Area
•Low salinity
•Summer discharge causes thick http://northlandsvs.com/
mud layers
•Iceberg calving causes winter
diamicton layers
Catalog of
foraminifera
•Distal Multicore chosen
•High-density, high diversity
•Picked 300 individual population
Multicore 8
http://ijolite.geology.uiuc.edu/02SprgClass/geo117/Ocea
n%20images/Microfoss.html
Foraminifera:
•Single-celled protists with
shells (tests), called “forams”
or “bugs” (Phylum: Protozoa)
•Consume algae, diatoms,
other protists by extending
protoplasm through aperture
in test (psuedopodia)
•Protoplasm is inside test
chamber (chambers added as http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bam2/col-index/fossi-
foram grows) lindex/Forams/Eelco/med-agean2/pages/pl-02.htm
Distinguishing features of a
genus:
Distinguishing features of a
genus:
secreted
Results: Genera and
Species Classification
Distinguishing features of a
genus:
Limbate
Costate
Results: Genera and
Species Classification
Distinguishing features of a
species:
•Morphology of Aperture (Echols and Armentrout,
1980)
Results: Genera and
Species Classification
Distinguishing features of a
species:
•Morphology of Aperture
•Coiling of test:
•Planispiral
•Involute
•Trochospiral
http://www.andreaperl.de/14_69_ammonia
html.html
Results: Genera and
Species Classification
Distinguishing features of a
species:
•Morphology of Aperture
•Coiling of test:
•Evolute
•Involute
•Trochospiral
•Streptospiral
•Other morphological features
(costate protrusion, limbate
thickness, papillate presence, etc.)
Plate 1: Abundant Genera
7. Epistominella sp. A,
sinistral, 1000x
3. Spiroplectammina sp. A,
1300x