Fossil preservation and the effects of groundwater leaching on fossils in the Yorktown Formation (Upper Pliocene), Virginia
Patterns of fossil diagenesis caused by groundwater leaching provide insight into how shells are altered. This study analyzes fossils in unconsolidated terrigenous sediments from the Virginia Coastal Plain, unlike previous studies conducted mostly in carbonate terranes. The vertical and lateral dist...
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2019
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/90972 |