TAPHONOMY by Ronald E. Martin, Derek Briggs, P. Dodson ( 9780521598330 )

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Title:

TAPHONOMY
A PROCESS APPROACH

By:

Ronald E. Martin, Derek Briggs, P. Dodson

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521598338

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9780521598330

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

28 October, 1999

Series:

Cambridge Paleobiology Series 4

Pages:

526

Description:

The first book to review the entire field of taphonomy for advanced students and professionals.

Synopsis:

Taphonomy: 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.

Illustrations:

94 b/w illus. 33 tables

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Cambridge University Press

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