Beyond Beecher's trilobite bed: Widespread pyritization of soft tissues in the Late Ordovician Taconic foreland basin

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 907-910

  Farrell, Úna C ^a   Martin, Markus J ^b   Hagadorn, James W ^c   Whiteley, Thomas ^b   Briggs, Derek E G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Amherst College ^*  (United States)

^c AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

BACTERIAL SULFATE REDUCTION; DEPOSITIONAL EVENT; FINE GRAINED; FORELAND BASIN; IRON SULFIDE; LATE ORDOVICIAN; NEW YORK STATE; SKELETAL MATERIALS;

TISSUE;

ARTHROPOD; BIOMINERALIZATION; BURIAL DIAGENESIS; FORELAND BASIN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; IRON SULFIDE; NEW TAXON; ORDOVICIAN; OSTRACOD; POREWATER; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PRESERVATION; PYRITE; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; TACONIC OROGENY; TAPHONOMY; TRILOBITE;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OSTRACODA;

EID: 70350357338     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30177A.1     Document Type: Article

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