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Fossils explained 78
Author(s) -
Donovan Stephen K.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
geology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1365-2451
pISSN - 0266-6979
DOI - 10.1111/gto.12332
Subject(s) - taphonomy , geology , cretaceous , paleontology , paleoecology , clastic rock , archaeology , ichnology , trace fossil , sedimentary rock , geography
The coastal town of Margate in north Kent, south‐east England, is geologically well known, with extensive cliffs of chalk with locally common Upper Cretaceous fossils. But to the ichnologist the modern beach is at least as fascinating, with a trinity of borings in chalk clasts and mollusc shells posing interesting questions relevant to palaeoecology and taphonomy.