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! Tim B. Abbe and David R. Montgomery (2003): Patterns and processes of wood debris accumulation in the Queets river basin, Washington. PDF file, Geomorphology, 51: 81-107.
N. Boonchai et al. (2009): Paleontological parks and museums and prominent fossil sites in Thailand and their importance in the conservation of fossils. Carnets de Géologie. See fig. 4!
C.A. Braudrick et al. (1997): Dynamics of wood transport in streams: a flume experiment. PDF file, Earth Surface Process and Landforms, 22: 669-683.
Andrew P. Brooks et al. (2001): Putting the wood back into our rivers: An experiment in river rehabilitation. PDF file, Third Australian Stream Management Conference, Brisbane.
S.N. Césari et al. (2010): Nurse logs: An ecological strategy in a late Paleozoic forest from the southern Andean region. Abstract, Geology, 38: 295-298.
Fred Clouter, Lower Eocene Fossils of the Isle of Sheppey: Fossil Trees & Logs. Teredo borings.
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. Hartford, CT: Large Woody Debris Fact Sheet. PDF file.
H.J. Falcon-Lang (2005): Earliest mountain forests. In PDF. Geology Today, Vol. 21. See fig. 3: A cordaite stump has been transported in an ancient river system from nearby mountains.
Timothy M. Demko et al. (1998): Plant taphonomy in incised valleys: Implications for interpreting paleoclimate from fossil plants. Abstract, Geology, 26: 1119-1122.
David K. Ferguson, Department of Palaeontology, Geocentre, University of Vienna, Austria: Catastrophic events as a taphonomic window on plant communities. Abstract, International Plant Taphonomy Meeting Chemnitz, 2003.
Robert A. Gastaldo and Carleton W. Degges (2007): Sedimentology and paleontology of a Carboniferous log jam. PDF file, International Journal of Coal Geology, 69: 103-118.
! R.A. Gastaldo (2004):The Relationship Between Bedform and Log Orientation in a Paleogene Fluvial Channel, Weißelster Basin, Germany: Implications for the Use of Coarse Woody Debris for Paleocurrent Analysis. PDF file, Palaios, 19: 587-597.
R.A. Gastaldo (1990): The paleobotanical character of log assemblages necessary to differentiate blow-downs resulting from cyclonic winds. PDF file, Palaios, 5: 472-478.
Martin R. Gibling et al. (2010): Log Jams and Flood Sediment Buildup Caused Channel Abandonment and Avulsion in the Pennsylvanian of Atlantic Canada. Abstract, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 80: 268-287.
Greb, S.F., Eble, C.F., Chesnut, D.R., Jr., Phillips, T.L., and Hower, J.C.: An in situ occurrence of coal balls in the Amburgy coal bed, Pikeville Formation (Duckmantian), Central Appalachian Basin, U.S.A. Palaios, v. 14, p. 433-451; 1999. See also here (via wayback).
! A.M. Gurnell et al. (2002): Large wood and fluvial processes. Freshwater Biology, 47: 601-619. See also here (abstract).
Urweltmuseum Hauff, Holzmaden.
A driftwood from the Liassic, 12 m long, settled by crinoids.
! See also
here (image hosted by www.chemieunterricht.de).
E.J. Hickin (1984): Vegetation and river channel dynamics. PDF file, Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien.
T.L. Hyatt and R.J. Naiman (2001): The residence time of large woody debris in the Queets River, Washington, USA. PDF file, Ecological Applications, 11: 191-202.
K.-P. Kelber (2007):
Die Erhaltung
und paläobiologische Bedeutung der fossilen Hölzer aus dem süddeutschen
Keuper (Trias, Ladinium bis Rhätium) (PDF file, in German).-
pp. 37-100; In: Schüßler, H. & Simon, T. (eds.):
Aus Holz wird Stein -
Kieselhölzer aus dem Keuper Frankens. See especially:
Driftwood from the germanotype middle Triassic (Ladinian), shown in fig. 1 (PDF page 4).
Y Liu and R.A. Gastaldo (1992): Characteristics and provenance of log-transported gravels in a Carboniferous channel deposit. PDF file, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 62: 1072-1083.
D.J. Martin and L.E. Benda (2001): Patterns of Instream Wood Recruitment and Transport at the Watershed Scale. PDF file, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 130: 940-958.
! Petra Matysová et al. (2010): Alluvial and volcanic pathways to silicified plant stems (Upper Carboniferous-Triassic) and their taphonomic and palaeoenvironmental meaning. PDF file, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 292: 127-143.
Christine L. May and Robert E. Gresswell (2004): Spatial and temporal patterns of debris-flow deposition in the Oregon Coast Range, USA. PDF file, Geomorphology, 57: 135-149.
David R. Montgomery et al. (2003): Influence of debris flows and log jams on the location of pools and alluvial channel reaches, Oregon Coast Range. PDF file, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 115: 78-88. See also here (abstract).
D.R. Montgomery et al. (2003): Geomorphic Effects of Wood in Rivers. PDF file, American Fisheries Society Symposium, 2003.
Geoffrey C. Poole (2002): Fluvial landscape ecology: addressing uniqueness within the river discontinuum. PDF file, Freshwater Biology, 47: 641-660.
Imogen Poole, Department of Earth Sciences, Geochemistry, Utrecht University: TAPHONOMY & PRESERVATION OF WOOD. Research projects.
Imogen Poole et al. (2001): Taphonomic observations from a tropical river system: Implications for fossil wood and propagule assemblages. Abstract, The 12th Plant Taphonomy Meeting was held in Altlengbach, Austria.
A. Radwanski (2009): "Phoenix szaferi" (palm fruitbodies) reinterpreted as traces of wood-boring teredinid bivalves from the Lower Oligocene (Rupelian) of the Tatra Mountains, Poland. PDF file, Acta Palaeobotanica, 49: 279-286.
Robert Randell, British Chalk Fossils: Driftwood with Teredo borings.
G.J. Retallack (1995): Permian and Triassic driftwood from the Allan Hills, Antarctica. PDF file, Antarctic Journal of the United States, 30.
G.M. Rex and A.C. Scott (1987): The sedimentology, palaeoecology and preservation of the Lower Carboniferous plant deposits at Pettycur, Fife, Scotland. PDF file, Geological Magazine.
! USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver:
Mount St. Helens, Washington.
May 18, 1980; Devastation Images.
Photographs showing trees blown down.
! See
also here.
Pim F. van Bergen & Imogen Poole (2001): Accounting for the relative absence of epiphytes and palms in fossil floras? - observations from the modern Peruvian Amazon Basin. Abstract, The 12th Plant Taphonomy Meeting was held in Altlengbach, Austria.
!
Wang Xiaofeng et al. (2009):
The Triassic Guanling fossil Group - A key GeoPark from
Barren Mountain, Guizhou Province, China.
A colony of Traumatocrinus sp. attached by root cirri to an agatized piece of
driftwood!
PDF file, from:
Jere H. Lipps and Bruno R.C. Granier (eds.) 2009, (e-book,
hosted by Carnets):
PaleoParks - The
protection and conservation of fossil sites worldwide.
Also available from
here.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Log Jam,
Driftwood.
E. Wohl et al. (2009):
Episodic
wood loading in a mountainous neotropical watershed.
PDF file, Geomorphology, 111: 149-159.
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