Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0210895

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0210895

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Cyclostome bryozoans: Their use as paleoceanographic, paleoclimatologic and paleoenvironmental proxies throughout the cenozoic of southern Australia. The unravelling of ocean evolution relies largely on data from fossils - geochemical proxies of ancient oceans. Southern Australia contains an inrivalled 45 million-year old record of cool-water carbonate sedimentation and thus global paleoceanography. Currently, the only proxies available in these extensive sediments are brachiopods and planktic foraminfers. However, these sediments contain prolific low-magnesium calcite bryozoans, particularly cyclostomes, that could be used instead. This research will assess such bryozoans and test their usefulness and reliability, utilising existing extensive modern marine and Tertiary samples, data bases and sections. Such potential proxies would be globally useful for limestones from the last 500My.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2002

End Date: 12-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $291,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geology | Sedimentology | Palaeontology | Geochemistry Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Primary products from animals | Oceanic processes (excl. climate related) | Earth sciences |

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