Backscattered electron imaging of fossils exceptionally-preserved as organic compressions

Palaios

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 110-117

  Orr, Patrick J ^a   Kearns, Stuart L ^a   Briggs, Derek E G ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BACKSCATTER; COMPRESSION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGING METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; PRESERVATION;

ARTHROPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036194820     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1669/0883-1351(2002)017<0110:BEIOFE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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