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Scour and Fill: The Significance of Event Separation

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Scour structures where cut and fill events were separated by a significant time interval are described. Palaeontologically this interval is important:

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    in allowing faunal colonisation of scoured surfaces (communities) and

  2. (b)

    in enhancing preservation potential (fossil traps). Both sand-filled scours, and the lesser known mud-filled ones cut into sands, are particularly typical of shelf facies.

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  1. Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Universität Tübingen, Sigwartstraße 10, D-7400, Tübingen, Germany

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Goldring, R., Aigner, T. (1982). Scour and Fill: The Significance of Event Separation. In: Einsele, G., Seilacher, A. (eds) Cyclic and Event Stratification. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75829-4_26

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