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