Fossils in the Field
Erschienen am 19. November 1991
Buch
Softcover
232 Seiten
978-0-582-06261-0 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
The aim of this volume is to provide a basis for evaluating the information potential of fossiliferous sediments and then to give an outline of the strategy and tactics to adopt in gathering the information in the field. The book is not designed as a simple handbook but as a guide, prompt and information source to use at base, at outcrop and in the lab. The size of the volume means that a general knowledge of the plant and animal phyla is assumed, and that the user will have some identification text to hand. No keys for identification are included. The reader will also probably have carried out some mapping in the field area or made a site investigation and will be familiar with the geological time scale and basics of sedimentology.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Harlow
Großbritannien
Verlagsgruppe
Pearson Education Limited
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Maße
Höhe: 246 mm
Breite: 189 mm
Gewicht
511 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-582-06261-0 (9780582062610)
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Part 1 Principles and classification: categories of information; principles; a classification of fossiliferious sediments. Part 2 Examples and opportunities: Mesozoic intertidal sands, neritic limestones, and a coral bank; upper Devonian shelf sandstones and shales; an Ordovician hardground; Ecocene sands and muds - shelf to shore; condensed pelagic limestones, conodonts, ammonoids and slumps; pelagic bituminous mudrock - aerobic, dysaerobic or anaerobic?; actuopalaeontology - the palaeontology of the present. Part 3 Field strategies: stratification, bedding and cyclic sedimentation; graphic logs; sampling; autochthonous buildups; bedded fossiliferous sediments. Part 4 Taphonomy: plant fossils; coal and oil shales; animal fossils; trace fossils; concretions; dolomite replacement and silicification; deformation of fossils. Part 5 Pseudofossils and stratigraphical and structural errors. Part 6 Fossils for the palaeontologist and palaeoecologist: palaeontological and palaeophysiological analysis; palaeoecological analysis; fossil ores (fossil lagerstatten). Part 7 Fossil for the sedimentologist: allochthonous skeletal accumulations; other parameters; bioturbation and trace fossils. Part 8 Fossils for the stratigrapher: primary lithostratigraphy and facies analysis; biostratigraphy; problems; the graphical method of correlation. Part 9 Fossils for the structural geologist and geophysicist. Appendices: field equipment and its uses, collecting and preparation; fossil identification; statistical analysis in the field; table of skeletal minerology, salinity tolerence, depth (marine bethod) and trophism; generally recognized chronostratigraphic divisions.