SUBJECT
Title
Applied micropaleontology practical
Type of instruction
practical
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 3
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
The practical workflow for applied micropalaeontology including sample acquisition, preparation and analysis, and interpretation and integration.
The following microfossils are studied as isolated specimens and in thin sections or slides:
- Calcareous groups: calcareous nannofossils, foraminifers, ostracods, otoliths, algae, bryozoans, calpionellids and calcispheres ;
- Siliceous groups: sponges, diatoms, radiolarians, silicoflagellates;
- Organic-walled groups: spores and pollen grains, dinoflagellates, acritarch, chitinozoa.
- Phosphatic groups: conodonts, ichthyolits, micromammals.
Readings
- Jones, R., W. (2011): Applications of Palaeontology Techniques and Case Studies: Cambridge University Press. Armstrong, H. & Brasier, M. (2004): Microfossils. Wiley-Blackwell. Banner F.T & Lord, A. R. (1982): Aspects of Micropaleontology, George Allen & Unwin (Pub.) Ltd. London.
- Jenkins, D. G. (ed.) (1993): Applied Micropalaeontology. Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordrecht, Boston, London,
- Loeblich, A. R. & Tappan, H. (1987): Foraminiferal genera and their classification. 2 vol., van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York.
- Murray, J. M. (1991): Ecology and Palaeoecology of Benthic Foraminifera. Longman Scientific & Technical and John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York.
- Winter, A. & Siesser W. G. (1994): Coccolithophores. Cambridge University Press.