Trace fossil analysis

Springer

2007

xiii, 226 p.

9783540472254

Vertebrate Tracks.- Arthropod Trackways.- Trilobite Burrows.- Arthropod Tunnel Systems.- Resting Traces.- Burrows of Short Bulldozers.- Burrows of Wormlike Bulldozers.- Burrows of Stripminers.- Arthrophycid Burrows.- Probers.- Deepsea Farmers.- Pseudo-Traces.- Earliest Trace Fossils.- Cruziana Stratigraphy.- Ichnofacies.

This definitive textbook by a renowned field observer and analyst of trace fossils concentrates on the most distinctive examples, mostly made by infaunal invertebrates in originally soft sediments. It covers the whole geologic column and ranges from deep-sea to shallow-marine and continental environments. The book is designed to foster interpretative skills using the author's own drawings. They are thematically grouped in 75 plates that form the core for the descriptive text and annotated references. A glossary of ichnological terms is also provided. This book s author is perhaps the world s most acknowledged expert in the field of trace fossils

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