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Author : Beaudoin, A.B.
Date : 2007.
Title : On the laboratory procedure for processing unconsolidated sediment samples to concentrate subfossil seed and other plant macroremains.
Publication : Journal of Paleolimnology
Issue : 37(2):
Page(s) : 301-308.
Abstract
Macrofossil analysis is becoming increasingly used as an approach to vegetation history in late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental studies. Macrofossils can be recovered from many terrestrial and lacustrine settings. Although the laboratory techniques are straightforward and are described in outline in several textbooks, the practical details of the extraction procedure are not widely available. This paper provides a detailed breakdown of the steps involved in extracting macroremains from unconsolidated (non-lithified) Quaternary sediments, with reasons for the various steps and practical details of how the extraction is accomplished. It is intended as a “how-to” laboratory manual for students and researchers undertaking macrofossil analysis.
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