Quantitative vertical zonation of salt-marsh foraminifera for reconstructing former sea level : an example from New Jersey, USA

• Main Authors: Kemp, Andrew C., Horton, Benjamin P., Vann, David R., Engelhart, Simon E., Grand Pre, Candace A., Vane, Christopher H., Nikitina, Daria., Anisfeld, Shimon C.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Science::Geology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97248; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10560
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We present a quantitative technique to reconstruct sea level from assemblages of salt-marsh foraminifera using partitioning around medoids (PAM) and linear discriminant functions (LDF). The modern distribution of foraminifera was described from 62 surface samples at three salt marshes in southern Ne...