Das Binntal ist ein wahres Eldorado für Mineraliensammler und -liebhaber. Es gibt wohl kein anderes Gebiet in den Alpen, welches so vielseitige und weltweit einzigartige Vorkommen auf engstem Raum aufweist, wie dieses vom Massentourismus noch weitgehend verschonte Alpental. Hinzu kommt noch eine besonders artenreiche und üppige Flora, welche sich hier auf äußerst abwechslungsreichen Gesteinen entwickeln konnte.

AUSTIN, W. E. N. & JAMES, R. H. Biogeochemical controls on palaeoceanographic environmental proxies: an introduction

JAMES, R. H. & AUSTIN, W. E. N. Biogeochemical controls on palaeoceanographic environmental proxies: a review 

WILLIAMS, R. J. P. Some fundamental features of biomineralization 

ZEEBE, R. E., BIJMA, J., HOЁ NISCH, B., SANYAL, A., SPERO, H. J. &WOLF-GLADROW, D. A. Vital effects and beyond: a modelling perspective on developing palaeoceanographic proxy relationships in foraminifera 

PEARSON, P. N. & BURGESS, C. E. Foraminifer test preservation and diagenesis: comparison of high latitute Eocene sites 

The basic structural building block of the biomarkers is the isoprene unit (Figure 1A). The end closer to the methyl branch is called the "head/' and the other end is the "tail." Compounds formed biosynthetically from isoprene units are called "isoprenoids." Two isoprene units joined head-to-tail (with minor modifications, such as hydrogenation of double bonds) form a monoterpane (Figure IB). Two monoterpanes (four isoprene units) linked together form a diterpane, whereas six isoprene units can be joined either to form a sterane or a triterpane, depending upon how the linking is accomplished.

Pollen, diatom and foraminiferal analyses of a nearly complete Mikulino/ Eemian interglacial marine sequence in Petrozavodsk, Russian Karelia, is presented together with a comprehensive literature review of Mikulino biostratigraphical data in NW Russia earlier published mostly in Russian. Mikulino interglacial deposits have been investigated in numerous sites, and, similarly, palaeohydrology and duration and correlation of different phases of the Mikulino marine submergence in this region have also been under discussion in several papers.