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Fossils in the field : information potential and analysis / Roland Goldring

Author
Goldring, Roland, 1928-
Published
Essex, England : Longman Scientific & Technical, 1991.
Physical Description
xiv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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EXAMPLES AND OPPORTUNITIES: Mesozoic intertidal sands, neritic limestones and a coral bank -- Upper Devonian shelf sandstones and shales -- An Ordovician hardground -- Eocene sands and muds: shelf to shore -- Condensed pelagic limestones, conodonts, ammonoids and slumps -- Pelagic bituminous mudrock: aerobic, dysaerobic or anaerobic? -- Actuopalaeontology: the palaeontology of the present -- FIELD STRATEGIES: Reconnaissance -- Stratification, bedding and cyclic sedimentation -- Graphic logs -- Sampling -- Field strategy for dominantly autochthonous buildups -- Bedded fossiliferous sediments -- TAPHONOMY: Plant fossils -- Animal fossils -- Trace fossils -- Concretions -- Dolomite replacement and silicification -- Deformation of fossils -- PSEUDOFOSSILS, AND STRATIGRAPHICAL AND STRUCTURAL ERRORS -- FOSSILS FOR THE PALAEONTOLOGIST AND PALAEOECOLOGIST: Palaeontological and palaeophysiological analysis -- Palaeoecological analysis -- Fossil-ores (Fossil-Lagerstatten) -- FOSSILS FOR THE SEDIMENTOLOGIST: Allochthonous skeletal accumulations -- Other parameters -- Bioturbation and trace fossils -- Tool marks -- FOSSILS FOR THE STRATIGRAPHER: Primary lithostratigraphy and facies analysis -- Biostra tigraphy -- Problems -- The graphical method of correlation -- FOSSILS FOR STRUCTURAL GEOLOGISTS AND GEOPHYSICISTS: Applications ofbiostratigraphy (dating of fossils) -- Applications to facies analysis -- Biogeographical applications -- Geopetal applications -- Organic matter and palaeotemperature -- Fossils and strain.
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ISBN
0582062616
0470216794 (USA)
Note
"Copublished in the United States with John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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