Abstract
Well coring is an expensive but valuable method to obtain information about the geological situation in the subsurface, and a versatile analysis including ichnological study may lead to a robust interpretation. The amount of investigation and recommended workflow are dependent on the goal, the core (e.g. preservation, length, preparation, facies, etc.), the task at hand (e.g. what kind of information and in which detail should be extracted), and the skills of the investigator. In an optimal case, ichnological data is integrated with other relevant data and information with respect to regional geology, sedimentology, petrophysics and others. Based on my own experience, the following overall steps can be performed and account for different tasks but may build on each other.
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Knaust, D. (2017). Methodology in Ichnological Core Logging. In: Atlas of Trace Fossils in Well Core . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49837-9_4
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