Taphonomy: A Process ApproachTaphonomy: A Process Approach is the first book to review the entire field of taphonomy, or the science of fossil preservation. It describes the formation of animal and plant fossils in marine and terrestrial settings and how this affects deciphering the ecology and extinction of past lifeforms and the environments in which they lived. The volume emphasises a process approach to taphonomy and reviews the taphonomic behaviour of all important taxa, plant and animal. It will be useful to anyone interested in the preservation of fossils and the formation of fossil assemblages, but it is aimed primarily at advanced students and professionals working in paleontology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, climate modeling and biogeochemistry. |
Contents
| 1 | |
necrolysis transport and abrasion | 27 |
dissolution and early diagenesis | 110 |
Bioturbation | 161 |
taphonomy and temporal resolution | 186 |
Exceptional preservation | 235 |
Sedimentation and stratigraphy | 268 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abundance Allison and Briggs aragonite basin Behrensmeyer benthic Berger bioerosion biogenic biota bioturbation bivalves bones boundary brachiopods Brett Burgess Shale burial CaCO3 calcareous calcite Cambrian Can®eld and Raiswell carbonate carcasses Chapter concentrations coral Cretaceous decay decreased deep-sea deposits depth Devonian diagenesis diagenetic disarticulated dissolution diversity durations of time-averaging ecological environmental environments equation extinction Figure Flessa foraminifera formation fossil assemblages fossil record Geological Society Geology grains hardparts in¯uence increased isotope Kidwell lysocline marine Marine Micropaleontology microfossil Micropaleontology mixed layer modern nutrient occur ocean Ordovician organic matter oxygen Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology Palaeogeography Palaios Paleobiology Paleozoic particles Permian Phanerozoic photic zone planktonic plant pollen preservation pyrite re¯ect Redrawn reef relatively result reworking samples Science sea-level sediment sedimentation rates Seilacher sequence Shale shallow signi®cant silica skeletons species stratigraphic studies suf®ciently suggested sul®des surface taphofacies taphonomic taxa terrestrial tests tion tracer transport velocity vertebrate whereas