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Although they are sometimes useful in age determination, agglutinated foraminifera are especially valuable as paleoenvironmental indicators because they are particularly characteristic of very shallow marine to brackish environments and very deep marine environments. Recent studies by Alve and Murray<ref name=ch17r2>Alve, E., Murray, J., W., 1995, Experiments to determine the origin and palaeoenviron-mental significance of agglutinated foraminiferal assemblages, in Kaminski, M., A., Geroch, S., Gasiński, M., A., eds., Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera: Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication 3, p. 1–11.</ref> and Kaminski and Kuhnt<ref name=ch17r50>Kaminski, M., A., Kuhnt, W., 1995, Tubular agglutinated foraminifera as indicators of organic carbon flux, in Kaminski, M., A., Geroch, S., Gasiński, M., A., eds., Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera: Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication 3, p. 141–144.</ref> suggest they may be useful in interpreting other paleoenvironments as well. Agglutinated foraminifera are the dominant and distinctive microfauna in Cretaceous and Tertiary flysch facies.

Although they are sometimes useful in age determination, agglutinated foraminifera are especially valuable as paleoenvironmental indicators because they are particularly characteristic of very shallow marine to brackish environments and very deep marine environments. Recent studies by Alve and Murray<ref name=ch17r2>Alve, E., Murray, J., W., 1995, Experiments to determine the origin and palaeoenviron-mental significance of agglutinated foraminiferal assemblages, in Kaminski, M., A., Geroch, S., Gasiński, M., A., eds., Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera: Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication 3, p. 1–11.</ref> and Kaminski and Kuhnt<ref name=ch17r50>Kaminski, M., A., Kuhnt, W., 1995, Tubular agglutinated foraminifera as indicators of organic carbon flux, in Kaminski, M., A., Geroch, S., Gasiński, M., A., eds., Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera: Grzybowski Foundation Special Publication 3, p. 141–144.</ref> suggest they may be useful in interpreting other paleoenvironments as well. Agglutinated foraminifera are the dominant and distinctive microfauna in Cretaceous and Tertiary flysch facies.

The color of agglutinated foraminifera has recently been shown to alter irreversibly with heating, both naturally within buried sediments and experimentally (see “Thermal Maturation”).

The color of agglutinated foraminifera has recently been shown to alter irreversibly with heating, both naturally within buried sediments and experimentally (see “Thermal Maturation”).

[[:file:applied-paleontology_fig17-4.png|Figure 1]] shows some typical agglutinated foraminifera.

 

[[file:applied-paleontology_fig17-4.png|thumb|{{figure number|17-4}}See text for explanation.]]

==See also==

==See also==