Salinity tolerance or marine organisms deduced from Red Sea Quaternary record

Amos Winter; Ahuva Almogi-Labin; Yonathan Erez; Elvira Halicz; Boaz Luz; Zeev Reiss

doi:10.1016/0025-3227(83)90030-0

Salinity tolerance or marine organisms deduced from Red Sea Quaternary record

Amos Winter^*, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Yonathan Erez, Elvira Halicz, Boaz Luz, Zeev Reiss

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Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences

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The oxygen-isotopic record and microfossils from deep-sea cores raised in the hypersaline (41‰ salinity) Gulf of Aqaba indicate that during Late Quaternary glacial time salinity rose considerably due to sea-level fall and strait-dynamics, reaching values of more than 50‰ during the last Glacial maximum about 18 Ka B.P. The salinity-dependent sequence of disappearance of various species of foraminifera, pteropods and coccolithophorids can be used to determine upper salinity tolerance limits of different taxa. Only the pteropod Creseis acicula and various benthonic foraminifera are able to withstand high salinities like those during the last glacial maximum.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	M17-M22
Journal	Marine Geology
Volume	53
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(83)90030-0
State	Published - Aug 1983

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