Taphonomy : a process approach /
"Taphonomy: A Process Approach is the first book to review the entire field of taphonomy, the science of fossil preservation. It describes the formation of plant and animal fossils in oceanic, terrestrial and river settings and how this effects deciphering the ecology and extinction of past lif...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Cambridge paleobiology series ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: the science of taphonomy
- 2. Biostratinomy I: necrolysis, transport, and abrasion
- 3. Biostratinomy II: dissolution and early diagenesis
- 5. Time-averaging of fossil assemblages: taphonomy and temporal resolution
- 6. Exceptional preservation
- 7. Sedimentation and stratigraphy
- 8. Megabiases I: cycles of preservation and biomineralization
- 9. Megabiases II: secular trends in preservation
- 10. Applied taphonomy
- 11. Taphonomy as a historical science.