Life history of a fossil : an introduction to taphonomy and paleoecology /
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Author / Creator: | Shipman, Pat, 1949- |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981. |
Description: | 222 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/484635 |
Summary: | This text sets forth in a clearly understandable way methods of analyzing how animal remains are acted upon and altered, both by biological and geological phenomena, in their passage from the biosphere of bones and carcass into the lithosphere of fossils. I |
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Item Description: | Includes index. |
Physical Description: | 222 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. [207]-218. |
ISBN: | 0674530853 |