Color most commonly gray, honey-brown, or black. Plants of a given region or period of geologic time. Useful in the reconstruction of past environments. An important method for obtaining microfloral and microfaunal remains and carbon samples. Protozoans that belong to the subclass Sarcodina, order Foraminifera, that have a test of one to many chambers composed of secreted calcite or agglutinated particles.
Cuticular analysis is a useful adjunct to palynology in environmental reconstruction.
The fossil wedges are proof of past cooling of climate and of the depth of permafrost. All the processes that involve the burial of a plant or animal in sediment and the eventual preservation of all, part, or a trace of it. This Archaeology on the Net Web Ring site is owned by Jeff Iverson .