Trouble in Paradise? A comparison of 1953 and 2005 benthonic foraminiferal seafloor assemblages at the Ibis Field, offshore eastern Trinidad, West Indies

Wilson, Brent

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Trouble in Paradise? A comparison of 1953 and 2005 benthonic foraminiferal seafloor assemblages at the Ibis Field, offshore eastern Trinidad, West Indies

Brent Wilson

Petroleum Geoscience Programme, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad, West Indies (e-mail: )

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