Foraminifera dissolution phases in the upper cretaceous succession of jebel duwi, egypt

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• who: Orabi H. Orabi from the with clear etching) (Table, )The foraminifera tests were mounted on standard, square micropaleontological slides and scanned using a Scanning Electron Microscope of Alexandria University (JSM-IT200, Series Jeol) (Figs., , , ). The preservation of planktic foraminiferal tests is usually good to moderate in the study area. We picked fragments of planktic foraminiferal tests over the entire , sample set and > , mm splits for the taphonomic analysis (Table, ). The fragmentation index is a well-known taphonomic proxy of the carbonate saturation state or dissolution of calcium carbonate [54-56]. The fragmentation index (FI) measures the . . .
  

   

  

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