Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: the science of taphonomy
- 2 Biostratinomy I: necrolysis, transport, and abrasion
- 3 Biostratinomy II: dissolution and early diagenesis
- 4 Bioturbation
- 5 Time-averaging of fossil assemblages: taphonomy and temporal resolution
- 6 Exceptional preservation
- 7 Sedimentation and stratigraphy
- 8 Megabiases I: cycles of preservation and biomineralization
- 9 Megabiases II: secular trends in preservation
- 10 Applied taphonomy
- 11 Taphonomy as a historical science
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: the science of taphonomy
- 2 Biostratinomy I: necrolysis, transport, and abrasion
- 3 Biostratinomy II: dissolution and early diagenesis
- 4 Bioturbation
- 5 Time-averaging of fossil assemblages: taphonomy and temporal resolution
- 6 Exceptional preservation
- 7 Sedimentation and stratigraphy
- 8 Megabiases I: cycles of preservation and biomineralization
- 9 Megabiases II: secular trends in preservation
- 10 Applied taphonomy
- 11 Taphonomy as a historical science
- References
- Index
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- TaphonomyA Process Approach, pp. vii - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999