Search Results - "Cutler, Alan H"

Steno and the rock cycle by Cutler, Alan H.

“…Geologists categorize the basic types of rock according to their origin – igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic -- rather than by their physical properties…”
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Environmental information in a recent bone assemblage: roles of taphonomic processes and ecological change by Cutler, Alan H, Behrensmeyer, Anna K, Chapman, Ralph E

“…Taphonomic processes have the potential to obscure or enhance original associations between paleoenvironments and organisms through selective destruction,…”
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Neotectonics and taphonomy; Pleistocene molluscan shell accumulations in the northern Gulf of California by Meldahl, Keith H, Cutler, Alan Hughes

“…Late Middle to early Late Pleistocene shallow marine deposits west of Bahia Adair, to the northern Gulf of California, have been exposed by tectonic uplift…”
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Fossils out of sequence; computer simulations and strategies for dealing with stratigraphic disorder by Cutler, Alan H, Flessa, Karl W

“…Microstratigraphic resolution is limited by vertical mixing and reworking of fossils. Stratigraphic disorder is the degree to which fossils within a…”
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Taphonomic implications of shell surface textures in Bahia la Choya, northern Gulf of California by Cutler, Alan H.

“…The author collected shell samples of the bivalve Chione from the extensive tidal flat system of Bahia la Choya, northern Gulf of California, and examined…”
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Time-averaging and postmortem skeletal survival in benthic fossil assemblages: quantitative comparisons among Holocene environments by Meldahl, Keith H., Flessa, Karl W., Cutler, Alan H.

“…We used radiocarbon ages on dead Holocene shells of the venerid bivalve Chione spp. to investigate how time-averaging and taphonomy in shallow marine benthic…”
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Time and taphonomy: quantitative estimates of time-averaging and stratigraphic disorder in a shallow marine habitat by Flessa, Karl W., Cutler, Alan H., Meldahl, Keith H.

“…We examined the radiocarbon age, taphonomic condition and stratigraphic position of shells of the venerid bivalve Chione spp. from the tidal flats of Bahia la…”
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