The Ichnofacies Paradigm. A Fifty-Year Retrospective.

Trace Fossils: Concepts, Problems, Prospects

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 52-77

  MacEachern, James A ^a   Pemberton, S George ^b   Gingras, Murray K ^b   Bann, Kerrie L ^c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Ichnofacies Analysis Inc ^*  (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452949-7/50130-3     Document Type: Chapter

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