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Marine Microfossils
Dr. J Bret BenningtonDepartment of Geology
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What are marine microfossils?
• Fossilized remains of small organisms or tiny hardparts of larger organisms.
• Plankton
• Benthic fauna
• Many different groups representing animals, protists, and a variety of algae.
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Protistan Microfossils
• Mineralized test (shell) formed by amoeba-like protozoans.
• Foraminifera - calcareous (calcium carbonate) or agglutinated (test composed of cemented grains of sand or other sediment).
• Radiolaria - test composed of silica.
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Protistan Microfossils
Foraminifera - sarcodina (amoeba)
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Protistan Microfossils
Foraminifera - sarcodina (amoeba)
Benthic forams• live in sediments• relatively large
Planktic forams• live floating in the water column
• relatively small
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Protistan Microfossils
Foraminifera - sarcodina (amoeba)
Benthic forams
Calcite
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Protistan Microfossils
Foraminifera
Planktic forams
Calcite
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Protistan Microfossils
Radiolarians - Spumellarians
Silica
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Protistan Microfossils
Radiolarians - Nacellarians
Silica
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Animal Microfossils
• Mineralized shells and teeth produced by metazoans (multicellular animals).
• Ostracods - calcareous (calcium carbonate) shell produced by tiny crustaceans.
• Conodonts - calcium phosphate “teeth” produced by an extinct group of vermiform (worm-like) vertebrates.
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Animal Microfossils
Ostracods - Arthropoda
calcite
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Animal Microfossils
Conodonts - Vertebrata
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Animal Microfossils
Conodonts - Vertebrata
conodont apparatus
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Animal Microfossils
Conodonts - Vertebrata
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Animal Microfossils
Conodonts - Vertebrata
microwear facets
calcium phosphate
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Algal Microfossils
• Mineralized tests and plates produced by a variety of unicellular algae.
• Coccolithophorids - tiny algae that produce calcareous plates - main component of chalk.
• Diatoms - algal cells that produce paired tests (called frustules) composed of silica.
• Dinoflagellates - marine algae that produce organic cysts preserved in sedimentary rock. Also the cause of most harmful algal blooms (HABs).
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Algal Microfossils
Coccolithophorids - Haptophyta calcite
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Chalk Cliffs, England
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Algal Microfossils
Diatoms - Chrysophyta silica
Pennate - benthic, parasitic Centric - planktic
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Algal Microfossils
Diatoms - Chrysophyta silica
frustules
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Algal Microfossils
Diatoms - Chrysophyta silica
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Algal Microfossils
Dinoflagellates - Pyrrhophyta Sporopollenin
living fossil
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Dinoflagellates - Pyrrhophyta
Living cell Cyst
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Why are marine microfossils useful?
• Biostratigraphy - dating rock layers using fossils.
• Environmental reconstruction - identifying different marine environments in the past.
• Paleothermometry - determining ocean water temperature in the past.
• Paleoclimatology - reconstructing climate change through Earth’s history.
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From Sugarman, et. al, 1995
Biostratigraphic zones - intervals of time defined by the presence of particular fossil species.
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From Sugarman, et. al, 1995
Coccoliths
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From Sugarman, et. al, 1995
Foraminifera
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Deep Sea Drilling Project ship - Glomar Challenger
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Recovering sediment cores from the deep ocean.
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Foraminifera
• Fossil foram species can be used to date age of seafloor and sediment layers.
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O16 O18
Stable IsotopesOxygen
99.76% .2%
CO2 + H2O = HCO3-1 + H+
2 HCO3-1 + Ca++ = CaCO3 + H2CO3
• O18 is preferentially removed from seawater during calcite formation.
• This effect is sensitive to temperature.• Ratio of O18 / O16 in shell is temperature dependent.• Can be measured using a mass spectrometer.
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Mass Spectrometer
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Change in isotopic ratio in carbonate shell with change in water temperature.
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Modern sea-surface temperature
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more ice
positive excursion
less ice
negative excursion
18O due to ice buildup
Glaciations cause more 18O to accumulate in seawater.
This happens because 16O evaporates preferentially and becomes trapped on land as glacial ice.
H216O
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cooling
warming
Average 18O curvefrom 5 deep sea cores(foram calcite).After Imbrie et al. (1984)
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Onset of Cenozoic cooling trend - development of cold deep ocean circulation.
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Navesink Formation, central New Jersey
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70XBenthic foraminifera
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Benthic foraminifera
70X
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Planktic foraminifera 70X
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Ostracod
70X
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Ostracod valve
70X
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Burrowing echinoid spine
70X
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Fish denticle
70X