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- Chemistry of Taphonomy - Explains how common substances in sedimentary environments lead to various states of preservation.
www.geo.arizona.edu/geo3xx/308/taph.html
- Comatulid Taphonomy - Introduction and references to the taphonomy of these reef dwelling marine invertebrates.
www.nova.edu/ocean/messing/crinoids/w19taphonomy.html
- Death Is A Sure Bet, Fossilization Is A Long Shot - Paper on plant and invertebrate taphonomy by Aaron Spriggs.
www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/courses/en570/papers_1998/spriggs.htm
- Experimental Taphonomy - Abstract of paper on the effect of shell size and shape on transport within the intertidal zone.
dana.ucc.nau.edu/~dph2/experime.htm
- International Plant Taphonomy Meeting - Informal workshops focusing on recent developments in the science of plant taphonomy. Site includes meeting information and abstracts.
www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/tapho/tapho1.html
- Plant Fossils and Their Preservation - Includes a section of conditions required for plant fossil preservation, the various levels of preservation, and types of fossils.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/IB181/VPL/Pres/PresTitle.html
- Preservation and Bias in the Fossil Record - Details the types of preservation and their related biases.
www-geology.ucdavis.edu/~GEL3/biases.html
- Shelf and Slope Environmental Taphonomy Initiative - Research project to measure taphonomic rates in a range of continental shelf and slope environments of deposition.
www.sidsnet.org/successtories/6.html
- Taphonomy - A brief introduction from Deciphering Earth History: A Laboratory Manual.
www.colby.edu/~ragastal/Taphonomy.htm
- Taphonomy and Preservation - Comprehensive tutorial on taphonomy and preservation from the State University of New York at Cortland.
paleo.cortland.edu/tutorial/Taphonomy%26Pres/taphonomy.htm
- Taphonomy and the Mesozoic Marine Revolution - Abstract of Palaios paper on how preservation states of bivalves mask the importance of boring predators.
www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/sepm/palaios/9808/harper.html
- Taphonomy of the Rhynie Chert - University of Aberdeen presentation of the preservation of biota in Rhynie chert.
www.abdn.ac.uk/~gmi265/profiles/rhynie/tapho.htm
- Taphonomy: Insight into Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Evolution - Abstracts of taphonomy papers presented at the 2002 meeting of the Geological Society of America.
gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002NE/finalprogram/session_2068.htm
- Taphonomy: Learning from the Dead - Description and syllabus of this field course in vertebrate and invertebrate taphonomy.
www.geol.vt.edu/paleo/fieldtaph.htm
- Taphos 2002 - Program of the 2002 International Conference on Taphonomy and Fossilization.
paleopolis.rediris.es/paleontologia/Taphos2002
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