| | MICROSTRATIGRAPHY OF AN AMALAGAMATED STORM BED: SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION IN THE FOSSIL RECORD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Studies of modern storm processes indicate that post-mortem transport of benthic marine organisms is often negligible, suggesting that subfossil death assemblages may commonly preserve spatial community structure with good fidelity, albeit time-averaged. |
 | | To test the implication that the same fidelity is to be expected in ancient assemblages, the Upper Ordovician strata of the type Cincinnatian provide highly fossiliferous, laterally extensive outcrops that are ideally suited for assessing fine-scale spatial and temporal patterns in a storm-dominated setting. |
 | | In this investigation, we analyzed spatial and microstratigraphic patterns of fossil distribution preserved in an amalgamated, multi-event Cincinnatian horizon that is traceable for a lateral distance of some 60 km. |
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