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      Impact of storms on Pliocene benthic foraminiferal assemblages of southwestern Spain Translated title: Impacto de las tormentas en las asociaciones de foraminíferos bentónicos del Plioceno del suroeste de España

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          Lithostratigraphical and faunal analyses of five Pliocene sections located in the southwestern Guadalquivir Basin (S Spain) permit reveal three main facies, which represent shallow marine fairweather conditions (FA-1), storm events (FA-2) and littoral/fluvial environments (FA-3). The vertical disposition of these facies indicates a regressive sequence. The statistical study of foraminiferal populations revealed five infralittoral and circalittoral assemblages. Vertical and horizontal variations among these assemblages, the P/B ratio and four diversity indices, together with the mollusc distributions, suggest the presence of a shallow marine palaeoenvironment in this area in the Lower Pliocene, with an increasing depth towards the southwestern. The main effects from storm events on the foraminiferal faunas are a slightly decrease of individuals and species, and a marked drop in the P/B ratio. The poststorm conditions are characterized by: a) a higher number of individuals; b) a progressive increase in the P/B ratio and c) small increases in the remaining indices.

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          El análisis litoestratigráfico y paleontológico de cinco secciones pliocenas situadas en el sector suroccidental de la Cuenca del Guadalquivir (Sur de España) permite distinguir tres facies principales, depositadas durante periodos de calma en un medio marino somero (FA-1), en épocas de tor­menta (FA-2) y en medios litorales a fluviales (FA-3). La disposición vertical de estas facies es indicativa de una secuencia regresiva. El análisis estadístico de las poblaciones de foraminíferos diferencia cinco asociaciones, representativas de medios circalitorales e infralitorales. Las variaciones verticales y horizontales de estas asociaciones, el índice P/B y cuatro índices de diversidad, unidas al análisis de la distribución de moluscos, sugieren que este sector estuvo ocupado por un medio marino somero durante el Plioceno Inferior, con un aumento de la profundidad hacia el suroeste. Los principales efectos de las tormentas en las asociaciones de foraminíferos son una pequeña disminución del número de individuos y especies, así como un importante descenso en el índice P/B. Los periodos posteriores a las tormentas se caracterizan por: a) un aumento en el número de individuos; b) un progresivo incremento en el índice P/B; y por c) pequeños aumentos en los índices de diversidad.

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              Evidence for a Large Earthquake and Tsunami 100-400 Years Ago on Western Vancouver Island, British Columbia

              A peaty marsh soil is sharply overlain by a sand sheet and intertidal mud at tidal marshes near Tofino and Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Foraminifera and vascular plant fossils show that the buried soil was submerged suddenly and was covered quickly by sand. Radiocarbon ages place this event between 100 and 400 yr ago. The coastal subsidence suggested by the submergence occurred in an area of net late Holocene emergence, perhaps during the most recent great earthquake on the northern part of the Cascadia subduction zone. The sand sheet overlying the peaty soil records the tsunami triggered by this earthquake. Similar stratigraphic sequences of about the same age have been reported from estuaries along the outer coasts of Washington and northern Oregon, suggesting that hundreds of kilometers of the Cascadia subduction zone may have ruptured during one, or a series of plate-boundary earthquakes less than 400 yr ago.
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                ameg
                Ameghiniana
                Ameghiniana
                Asociación Paleontológica Argentina (Buenos Aires )
                1851-8044
                June 2009
                : 46
                : 2
                : 345-360
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Universidad de Huelva Spain
                [2 ] Universidad de Salamanca Spain
                [3 ] Universidad de Sevilla Spain
                [4 ] Universidad de Guadalajara Mexico
                [5 ] Universidad de Huelva Spain
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                S0002-70142009000200011
                94c0cd99-2222-44a3-ae77-2fa44494e536

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                PATHOLOGY

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                Benthic foraminifera,Storms,Lower Pliocene,SW Spain,Foraminíferos bentónicos,Tormentas,Plioceno Inferior,Suroeste España

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