Ecological and L-system based simulations of trace fossils

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 192, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 45-58

  Plotnick, Roy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Models; Simulations; Trace fossils

Indexed keywords

MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRACE FOSSIL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037444112     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00678-8     Document Type: Article

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