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Science 8 August 1980:
Vol. 209. no. 4457, pp. 687 - 689
DOI: 10.1126/science.209.4457.687
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Foraminifera: Distribution of Provinces in the Western North Atlantic

M. A. BUZAS 1 and S. J. CULVER 1

1 Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560

All published distributional data on recent benthic foraminifera of the North American Atlantic continental margin were archived into computerized catalogs. Cluster analysis of these data delimited seven large, marginally overlapping provinces exhibiting a congruous relationship with western North Atlantic water masses. The single major latitudinal faunal change occurs at Cape Hatteras.

Submitted on February 14, 1980
Revised on April 25, 1980


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