Trace Fossil Analysis

Trace fossils record the behavior of animals at the very spot where they lived millions of years ago. Their growing interest derives from the intimate connection between ichnology and sedimentology and their combined relevance for paleoenvironmental reconstructions, basin analysis, and petroleum exp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seilacher, Adolf
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2007, 2007
Edition:1st ed. 2007
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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