Trace fossils as mechanical discontinuities in shales, insight for the generation of bedding-parallel veins (BPV) [PDF]
Understanding shale petrophysical parameters is of interest due to its direct implications as cap rocks for CO2 or hydrogen storage, waste depositions, and as unconventional reservoirs.
Alain Zanella +3 more
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Trace fossils associated with Burgess Shale non-biomineralized carapaces: bringing taphonomic and ecological controls into focus [PDF]
The association of trace fossils and non-biomineralized carapaces has been reported from Cambrian Lagerstätten worldwide, but the abundance, ichnodiversity, taphonomy and ecological significance of such associations have yet to be fully investigated. Two
M. Gabriela Mángano +2 more
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Penetrative trace fossils from the late Ediacaran of Mongolia: early onset of the agronomic revolution [PDF]
The Cambrian radiation of complex animals includes a dramatic increase in the depth and intensity of bioturbation in seafloor sediment known as the ‘agronomic revolution’.
Tatsuo Oji +7 more
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Trace Fossils, Process, and Documents
This paper examines fossils as documents. Fossils are informative in the documentary world because they represent the skeletal structures of once-living organisms—therefore, they are the documentary remnants of something that, previously, was a fully ...
Robert Montoya
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Glass factory found: Basinwide (600 km) preservation of sponges on the Phosphoria glass ramp, Permian, USA. [PDF]
A new analysis of misdiagnosed fossil deposits contextualizes the geologic origin for one of North America's most valuable, but enigmatic, sedimentary units: the Phosphoria Rock Complex (Permian).
Zackery Wistort +3 more
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On the findings of trace fossils PHYCOSIPHON in the Triassic of South-Eastern Pamirs
The article contains description of the burrowing trace fossils Phycosiphon newly discovered in the Upper Triassic of South-Eastern Pamirs and some associated trace fossils. Depositional environments and bathymetry of enclosing sediments were analyzed.
A V Dronov, Y Kh Raimbekov, V B Kushlina
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The Armorican Quartzite: when trilobites ruled the Ordovician seas of the Villuercas-Ibores-Jara UNESCO Global Geopark, Spain [PDF]
Cruziana is a common and widespread trace fossil in Lower Palaeozoic strata that is generally attributed to the activity of trilobites. The Lower to Middle Ordovician Armorican Quartzite Formation of southern Europe contains well-preserved examples of ...
Ivan Cortijo +4 more
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Exposed! The Public Life of Carboniferous Fossils in the Burren and Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Global Geopark, Ireland [PDF]
Carboniferous fossils from the Burren and Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Global Geopark, County Clare, Ireland are rated by their promotional potential in the form of celebrity A, B or C-listings.
Eamon Doyle
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The Ediacaran-Cambrian Radiation of Animals within the Villuercas-Ibores-Jara UNESCO Global Geopark, Spain [PDF]
Across the Ediacaran to Cambrian transition, some 541 Ma, the Earth's biosphere changed from one dominated by microbial organisms to one where multicellular organisms, including animals, rose to importance. Within a few tens of millions of years into the
Iván Cortijo +3 more
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Trace Fossils Of The Selorejo Formation, Rembang Zone, North East Java Basin, Indonesia
The Rembang Zone of the North East Java Basin is a zone that develops as a petroleum system and is one of the areas with Indonesia’s largest oil reserves.
Siti Umiyatun Choiriah +7 more
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