Rhizoliths are organosedimentary structures formed in soils or fossil soils (paleosols) by plant roots. They include root moulds, casts, and tubules, root...
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other cases, the root traces consist of fine, branching nodules, called “rhizoliths”, which formed around the roots before they decayed. From detailed studies...
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Wadi Hitan Type-1 rhizoliths Mangrove plant (Avicenniaceae) Cymodocea sp. Temple Member Qasr Qarun Foliar remains Type-3 rhizoliths A marine Angiosperm...
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and horizontally laminated sandstone, with ripple cross laminations and rhizoliths. It was first formally defined as a unit by Hasegawa et al. in 2008 as...
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RECHARGE OF A FRESH WATER-BRINE GROUNDWATER SYSTEM, PILOT VALLEY Playa RHIZOLITH STABLE ISOTOPE PATTERNS FROM PILOT VALLEY PLAYA, UTAH Lines, Gregory C...
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Division) A vertical, helical tube interpreted as the trace of a plant rhizolith or animal burrow. Undichna U. septemsulcata "Middle Wood Bay Formation"...
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tools for restraining animals. In the form of calcretes, "lake chalks", rhizoliths, travertines and tufa. Local runoff contributed to the filling of the...
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Decade V. 1: 109–115. Badawy, Hanan S. (2018-03-01). "Termite nests, rhizoliths and pedotypes of the Oligocene fluviomarine rock sequence in northern...
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breccias; evaporites, etc. Locally, desiccation cracks, root traces (rhizoliths), calcretes, and black pebbles indicate emersion phases and paleosol formation...
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"lower Bayn Dzak" Alternating reddish brown mudstone and horizontally laminated sandstone, with ripple cross laminations and rhizoliths. ~15 m (49 ft)...
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the formation. The paleosols found here are rich in clay, calcite, and rhizoliths which show that during the Cretaceous period, this fossil formation, just...
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also saw high plant activity, with remains such as wood, charcoal, and rhizoliths, indicating nearby vegetated soils. Other features include raindrop impacts...
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Araucariaceae indet. Indeterminate Xixia "Amber pieces." A conifer. Plantae indet. Indeterminate Not specified. Upper Member "Rhizoliths." Root traces....
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facies were discovered on drillings. Red sandstone-pelitic facies with rhizoliths often forms the base and can be widely found (Jbel Rat, Foum Jem'a, Rbat...
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These have been traced for over 200 kilometers (120 mi) and contain rhizoliths (fossil roots) and other indications that a thin soil layer developed...
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and also of small ornithischian dinosaurs. Petrified wood fragments, rhizoliths, coprolites, and planolites burrows have also been found. The Clarens...
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level. The formation is notable for its trace fossils, which include rhizoliths, arthropod feeding and locomotion traces, and tetrapod trackways. A tracksite...
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vertebrate trackways, invertebrate trace fossils, tunnel structures, rhizoliths, and possibly wood borings. Fish coprolites are abundant in the limestone...
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Formation. The latter is variegated sandstone and siltstone with abundant rhizoliths. The Shinarump Conglomerate is again well-exposed along the Nacimiento...
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tunnel systems. A third large group of trace fossils can be referred to as rhizoliths (root passages of plants). They occur in all sizes and reflect the diverse...
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350 thousand years (ka), corresponding to the middle Pleistocene epoch. Rhizoliths are locally abundant in paleosol beds and show features characteristic...
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contain thin interlayers of blocky calcrete and carbonate nodules with some rhizoliths. Massive pebbly mudstones are restricted to positions very proximal to...
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at the base, and an upper fossiliferous unit. Coprolites and putative rhizoliths are present. A light-colored cross-bedded sandstone also occurs at the...
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seasons. Microbial biomats likely developed on shallow waters, while rhizoliths increased it´s presence of abandoned channel fills and pedogenic facies...
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overlying Arroyo del Agua Formation. The siltstone beds contain many rhizoliths, while the sandstone beds are coarse grained, arkosic, and micaceous,...
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semi-consolidated, cross-bedded sandstones. Calcrete layers containing rhizoliths, and reddish, clay-rich soils are also found. These were deposited in...
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found on the islands, including the fragile fossil root networks known as rhizoliths that are found on Escape Island. The Jurien Bay skink is found on the...
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