The Sedimentology of Palaeontology - How to Accumulate Highly Fossiliferous Deposits

The Sedimentology of Palaeontology - How to Accumulate Highly Fossiliferous Deposits

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The Sedimentology of Palaeontology - How to Accumulate Highly Fossiliferous Deposits

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 The Sedimentology of Palaeontology: how to accumulate highly fossiliferous deposits
  3. 3 Introduction
  4. 4 A note on collecting macrofossils
  5. 5 Pattern recognition really works
  6. 6 What rock type?
  7. 7 The best outcrops for fossil hunting
  8. 8 The eternal question-what rate?
  9. 9 Terrestrial versus Marine
  10. 10 Using fossils as sedimentation gauges
  11. 11 Macrofossil abundance
  12. 12 Feast and famine
  13. 13 Lower energy fluvial environments 1
  14. 14 Classic channel lagi winnowing
  15. 15 High energy fluvial environments
  16. 16 Dataset: Princess South
  17. 17 Aeolian
  18. 18 Lacustrine
  19. 19 Estuarine settings
  20. 20 Significant surfaces at the coast
  21. 21 Shallow marine carbonates
  22. 22 Atlas Medusa
  23. 23 Open marine settings
  24. 24 Open marine case study: Sandakan Formation
  25. 25 Examples of rich fossil beds proximal environments
  26. 26 Examples of rich fossil beds: distal environments
  27. 27 Most likely environments with abundant fossil beds
  28. 28 Concentrating agents across environments
  29. 29 What is taphonomy?
  30. 30 Slopes and currents - outside taphonomic agents
  31. 31 The Snyder Quarry
  32. 32 Howe Quarry, Wyoming
  33. 33 Monospecific bone beds of DPP, Alberta
  34. 34 Interpretation of bone beds
  35. 35 Conclusions

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