Taphonomy
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89001437
- info:lc/authorities/sh89001437
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh89001437#concept
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Sources
- found: Work cat.: Shipman, P. Life history of a fossil, 1981:p. 6 (a branch of paleontology ... taphonomy ... the study of the transition of animal remains from the biosphere into the lithosphere)
- found: Dict. geol. terms(taphonomy: the study of the death and decay of organisms, including the process of preservation as fossils)
- found: LC data base, 2/28/89(taphonomy)
- found: Random House(1. the circumstances & process of fossilization, 2. Study of the environmental conditions affecting the preservation of animal & plant remains)
- found: Dict. earth sci.(taphonomy: study of the processes affecting an organism from its death to its possible fossilization)
- found: GeoRef.
- found: Geosaurus.
Change Notes
- 1989-03-09: new
- 1989-06-15: revised
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