Dinocysts as a Tool for Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction in Vitória Bay, Brazil

Micropaleontological and geochemical data were applied to sediments from southeastern Brazil to study the hydrodynamics associated with the Holocene sea level rise. Sediment cores were taken around Vitória Bay, examined for dinoflagellate cysts and subjected to isotopic analysis. The cyst assemblage mainly dominated by autotrophic species most notably O. centrocarpum , L. machaerophorum and T. vancampoae . The influence of the marine...