The Sedimentology of Palaeontology - How to Accumulate Highly Fossiliferous Deposits
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Overview
Syllabus
Intro
The Sedimentology of Palaeontology: how to accumulate highly fossiliferous deposits
Introduction
A note on collecting macrofossils
Pattern recognition really works
What rock type?
The best outcrops for fossil hunting
The eternal question-what rate?
Terrestrial versus Marine
Using fossils as sedimentation gauges
Macrofossil abundance
Feast and famine
Lower energy fluvial environments 1
Classic channel lagi winnowing
High energy fluvial environments
Dataset: Princess South
Aeolian
Lacustrine
Estuarine settings
Significant surfaces at the coast
Shallow marine carbonates
Atlas Medusa
Open marine settings
Open marine case study: Sandakan Formation
Examples of rich fossil beds proximal environments
Examples of rich fossil beds: distal environments
Most likely environments with abundant fossil beds
Concentrating agents across environments
What is taphonomy?
Slopes and currents - outside taphonomic agents
The Snyder Quarry
Howe Quarry, Wyoming
Monospecific bone beds of DPP, Alberta
Interpretation of bone beds
Conclusions
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