The Application of Ichnology to Palaeoenvironmental and Stratigraphic AnalysisD. McIlroy It has been increasingly realized by sedimentologist in the petroleum industry and academia that integration of ichonological information into sedimentological models, and vice versa, is one of the main means by which we can improve our understanding of ancient depositional environments. This volume aims to provide an analytical review of yhe ichnology of all major depositional environments and the use ichnology in biostratigraphic and sequence stratigraphic analysis, as well as highly refined palaeeoenvironmental studies. The remit of the book is achieved through a combination of review articles and novel research papers that outline methodologies and protocols for improving our understanding of ancient palaeoenvironments. Trace fossils from microscopic borings to dinosaur footprints are considered. |
Contents
The application of ichnology to palaeoenvironmental and stratigraphic | 1 |
PEMBERTON S G MACEACHERN J A SAUNDERS T Stratigraphic applications of | 29 |
Recent and subrecent microborings from the upwelling area off Mauritania | 63 |
GOLDRING R CADÉE G C DALESSANDRO A DE GIBERT J M JENKINS R POLLARD | 77 |
examples from | 93 |
UCHMAN A Phanerozoic history of deepsea trace fossils | 125 |
MARTIN K D A reevaluation of the relationship between trace fossils and dysoxia | 141 |
G BUATOIS L A Ichnology of Carboniferous tideinfluenced environments | 157 |
Jurassic Ile | 237 |
BANN K L FIELDING C R An integrated ichnological and sedimentological comparison | 273 |
A MÁNGANO M G Animalsubstrate interactions in freshwater | 311 |
examples from the Triassic rift | 335 |
GENISE J F BELLOSI E S GONZALEZ M G An approach to the description and | 355 |
TWITCHETT R J BARRAS C G Trace fossils in the aftermath of mass extinction events | 397 |
GENISE J F Ichnotaxonomy and ichnostratigraphy of chambered trace fossils in palaeosols | 419 |
BROMLEY R G A stratigraphy of marine bioerosion | 455 |
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