A History Of Life

1. From production to final burial - pt. 2
(Taphonomy/Shell transport)

...er place to study the outcomes of shell transport. Successions are much younger here and the best shell beds are from the uppermost Pliocene and the lower Pleistocene. These cover a full range of taph...

2. From production to final burial
(Taphonomy/Shell transport)

...sp;             These Alveolina beds cannot be directly tracked to basin settings, but shelfal sandstone lobes of the Figols, Ca...

3. San Miniato and the history of Earth Science
(Paleontological sites/Neogene Europe)

...succession, a testimonial of early late Pliocene Milankovitch-type sea level cycles , lie several shell beds of different nature (Benvenuti et al 2007 ). Collectors of fossil marine molluscs were acti...

4. Back to the Basin
(Paleontological sites/Paleogene Europe)

...moment the visit to the site is forbidden, but a record of the stratigraphy and a sampling of the shell beds is going on (with the necessary collaboration of the excavating company), since what is vis...

5. Shell beds at ravinement surfaces
(Taphonomy/Shell beds and sequence stratigraphy)

Marine successions thorughout the Phanerozoic are "punctuated" with shell beds, some thin, some thick. Pliocene shallow sea successions of Tuscany (Italy) are no exception to this and a go

6. Paleontological sites of the Pisa Province (Italy)
(Paleontological sites/Neogene Europe)

...iocene marine mammals and chelonians. The Pisa territory is however rich with all kinds of marine shell beds, some of them high diversity, as around Orciano itself, others with brackish water faunas, ...

7. Whale-fall communities on the shelf
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

... organic-rich sediments, the comparison could be extended to benthic assemblages from seagrass and kelp beds.   References: Kiel, S. and J.L. Goedert. 2006. Deep-sea...