Foraminiferal (Protozoa) Diversity and Distribution in the  Timor Sea
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The extremely diverse foraminiferal fauna of the Timor Sea                                                                                                 off northwest Australia will be studied.  Numerous traverses were                                                                                               made across the Sahul Shelf, a broad stable continental platform                                                                                                bordering the low-lying deeply weathered Australian continent,                                                                                                  across the adjacent tectonically unstable geosynclinal Timor                                                                                                    Trough.  Sample sites range from 20 m to nearly 3500 m in water                                                                                                 depth.  Published lithologic studies of the same cores include                                                                                                  data concerning water depth, bottom relief, and detailed                                                                                                        character of the bottom sediments, including percent CaCO3 and                                                                                                  percent organic carbon.  Most previous detailed distributional                                                                                                  studies of foraminifera have been made in clastic depositional                                                                                                  environments, as on the eastern and western coasts of North                                                                                                     America, or in the Gulf of Mexico.  Previous published studies of                                                                                               carbonate shelves have had a limited number and depth                                                                                                           distribution of samples, hence less diverse foraminiferal faunas.                                                                                               In contrast, the sedimentological, structural, and climatic                                                                                                     setting of the Timor Sea strongly resembles that of biotically                                                                                                  diverse Paleozoic and Mesozoic epicontinental seas.  Over 1000                                                                                                  species comprise its extremely diverse fauna.  Assemblages will                                                                                                 be determined by factor analysis of counts of the living                                                                                                        fraction.  The faunas will be compared with the known                                                                                                           sedimentological and other characteristics to provide a basis for                                                                                               interpretation of similar calcareous deposits of the geologic                                                                                                   past.
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