Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1991 - Natural history |
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... showing facies interpretations and units containing trace fossils . VERTICAL FACIES CHANGES AND DEPOSITIONAL MODEL The 180 m thick Sardinia Bay Formation ( sensu Shone 1979 , 1983 ) can be subdivided into a number of facies on the basis ...
... showing facies interpretations and units containing trace fossils . VERTICAL FACIES CHANGES AND DEPOSITIONAL MODEL The 180 m thick Sardinia Bay Formation ( sensu Shone 1979 , 1983 ) can be subdivided into a number of facies on the basis ...
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... showing thin horizontal sand - filled burrows and rounded cross - sections of vertical sand - filled tubes on a sandstone bedding surface . These traces are similar to Chondrites . probably worms ( Nicholson 1873 ; Häntzschel 1975 : W95 ...
... showing thin horizontal sand - filled burrows and rounded cross - sections of vertical sand - filled tubes on a sandstone bedding surface . These traces are similar to Chondrites . probably worms ( Nicholson 1873 ; Häntzschel 1975 : W95 ...
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... showing disseminated pyrite now altered to lim- onite ( dark nodules ) and short , gently curved burrows with rounded ends ( arrowed ) , which resemble Planolites . Note that the burrow fill is almost indistinguishable from the ...
... showing disseminated pyrite now altered to lim- onite ( dark nodules ) and short , gently curved burrows with rounded ends ( arrowed ) , which resemble Planolites . Note that the burrow fill is almost indistinguishable from the ...
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abbreviated bioturbated burrow fill callianassid decapods Cape Town Chondrites cm Fig cm in diameter colonization by sediment-dwellers correlation cross-section Cruziana ichnofacies model currents and waves decapods depositional environment Description Differential weathering Diplocraterion disseminated pyrite EARLY ORDOVICIAN SARDINIA Ekdale epeiric sea FACIES INTERPRETATIONS Fascifodina Figure Frey & Pemberton Gastropoda Häntzschel 1975 holotype ichno ichnogenus indicate INNER SHELF MEGARIPPLE INNER SHELF MUD INNERMOST SHELF MUD interval Irregular U-tubes Leda MUD AND SAND Mudrock units namacolus occur Ophiomorpha paper paratypes parentheses Pemberton 1984 Port Elizabeth punctuation quartzite references relict sedimentary structures Restricted biota rocks Roman numerals sandstone sole Sardinia Bay Formation scientific name sediment sediment-dwelling organisms sedimentary structures Seilacher 1967 shafts shallow marine Shone shoreface Skolithos ichnofacies Skolithos tubes sole marking SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Spreiten demarcated sub-horizontal Synonymy Table Mountain Group Thalassinoides tidal currents trace fossil assemblages trace fossil association traces resembling Upper Sardinia Bay V-shaped pattern Vermiform sand-filled tubes vertical burrows