Ostracoda in the Earth Sciences

Illustration of ostracods. Ostracods and palaeoceanography (R.H. Benson). The importance of ostracods in biostratigraphic analysis (J.-P. Colin, F. Lethiers). Chronoecology, a non-taxonomic application of ostracods (D. van Harten). Palaeobathymetry on the continental shelf based on examples using ostracods from the Gulf of Alaska (E.M. Brouwers). Ostracods and sea-level changes: case studies form the Quaternary of North and South Carolina, U.S. Atlantic coast (T.M. Cronin). Determining Late Neogene and Quaternary palaeoclimates and palaeotemperature regimes using ostracods (J.E. Hazel). Ostracoda and palaeogeography (R.C. Whatley). Ostracods and palaeosalinity reconstruction (J.W. Neale). Ostracods and the transition between fresh and saline waters (P. Carbonel). The use of ostracods to reconstruct continental palaeoenvironmental records (P. De Deckker, R.M. Forester). Stable isotopes from lacustrine Ostracoda as tracers for continental palaeoenvironments (G.S.Lister). Amino acid racemization in fossil non-marine ostracod shells: a potential tool for the study of Quaternary stratigraphy, chronology, and palaeotemperature (W.D. McCoy). Sediment transport detected from the analysis of ostracod population structure: an example from the Alaskan continental shelf (E.M. Brouwers). Population structure of ostracods: Some general principles from the recognition of palaeoenvironments (R.C. Whatley). Applications of ostracods in quantitative geology (R.C. Reyment). Appendix. Genus and species index. Subject and locality index.