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Recent Vertebrate Carcasses and Their Paleobiological Implications.
The first English translation of Johannes Weigelt's 1927 classic makes available the seminal work in taphonomy, the study of how organisms die, decay, become entombed in sediments, and fossilize over time. Weigelt emphasized the importance of empirical work and made extensive observations of mo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Translator's Note; Publisher's Note; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Death and Its Aftermath; Chapter 2: Modes of Death; Chapter 3: Laws Governing Positions of Recent And Fossil Vertebrate Carcasses; Chapter 4: The Carcass Assemblage at Smithers Lake and Its Origin; Chapter 5: Carcass Assemblages and Concentrations in the Geologic Past; Conclusion; Figures and Plates following page 168; References; Index.