Benthic ostracoda and foraminifera from the North Adriatic Sea (Italy, Mediterranean Sea) : a proxy for the depositional characterisation of river-influenced shelves

• Main Authors: Barbieri, Giulia, Rossi, Veronica, Vaiani, Stefano Claudio, Horton, Benjamin Peter
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Science::Geology; Ostracoda; Benthic Foraminifera
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137149
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We investigated the distribution of ostracoda and benthic foraminifera from the shallow (<40 m water depth) river-influenced North Adriatic shelf. Combining faunal and environmental data from a sub-set of literature databases (Breman, 1975; Jorissen, 1988), we recognised the main environmental dr...