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Intro
Contents
Acknowledgements
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Foreword (by Professor David A.T. Harper, Durham University)
Introduction
Getting started
Chapter 1 How to collect
Chapter 2 Where to collect
Chapter 3 What to collect
Chapter 4 The field notebook
Chapter 5 Measuring sections (and why)
Chapter 6 The Law of Superposition
Chapter 7 Fossiliferous sedimentary rocks: Siliciclastics
Chapter 8 Fossiliferous sedimentary rocks: Limestones, flints, cherts and coals
Chapter 9 Reworked fossils
Chapter 10 Fossils as way-up structures
Chapter 11 Fossils as current indicators
Chapter 12 Your palaeontological library
Chapter 13 Fossils in caves
Chapter 14 Beachcombing
Chapter 15 Common sense in the field
Chapter 16 Collecting with a camera
Chapter 17 Buying specimens
Some theoretical aspects
Chapter 18 Palaeoecology 1: The organism
Chapter 19 Palaeoecology 2: Organism meets organism
Chapter 20 Palaeoecology 3: Getting more information from the bed
Chapter 21 Preservation 1: Fossilization
Chapter 22 Preservation 2: Death
Chapter 23 Preservation 3: Disarticulation, transport and residence
Chapter 24 Preservation 4: Burial and diagenesis
Chapter 25 Trace fossils
Working on your collection at home
Chapter 26 Storage
Chapter 27 Labelling
Chapter 28 Photography at home
Chapter 29 Drawing
Chapter 30 Specializing in your favourite fossil group
Chapter 31 Writing descriptions
Chapter 32 Casting from natural moulds
Chapter 33 Problems with preservation
The wider field: getting involved
Chapter 34 Collaboration
Chapter 35 Scientific societies
Chapter 36 Conferences
Chapter 37 Journals and magazines
Chapter 38 Offprints, PDFs and filing
Chapter 39 Visiting museums
Chapter 40 Ideas for further involvement.
Chapter 41 Publishing I: Persuading you to get involved
Chapter 42 Publishing II: The hard work of self-editing
Chapter 43 Publishing III: How to publish a new species
Fossils in many fields
Chapter 44 The field guide
Chapter 45 Field trip: Den Haag, the Netherlands
Chapter 46 Field trip: The Piltdown Trail
Chapter 47 Field trip: Overstrand to Cromer, Norfolk
Chapter 48 Field trip: Cleveleys, Lancashire
Chapter 49 Field trip: Queen Victoria's bathing beach, Isle of Wight
Chapter 50 Field trip: Salthill Quarry, Clitheroe
Chapter 51 Field trip: Hurdlow, Derbyshire
Chapter 52 Field trip: Antigua
Chapter 53 Field trip: Aktuo-Paläontologie of Southport Beach, Merseyside
Glossary
Index.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Sources
Foreword (by Professor David A.T. Harper, Durham University)
Introduction
Getting started
Chapter 1 How to collect
Chapter 2 Where to collect
Chapter 3 What to collect
Chapter 4 The field notebook
Chapter 5 Measuring sections (and why)
Chapter 6 The Law of Superposition
Chapter 7 Fossiliferous sedimentary rocks: Siliciclastics
Chapter 8 Fossiliferous sedimentary rocks: Limestones, flints, cherts and coals
Chapter 9 Reworked fossils
Chapter 10 Fossils as way-up structures
Chapter 11 Fossils as current indicators
Chapter 12 Your palaeontological library
Chapter 13 Fossils in caves
Chapter 14 Beachcombing
Chapter 15 Common sense in the field
Chapter 16 Collecting with a camera
Chapter 17 Buying specimens
Some theoretical aspects
Chapter 18 Palaeoecology 1: The organism
Chapter 19 Palaeoecology 2: Organism meets organism
Chapter 20 Palaeoecology 3: Getting more information from the bed
Chapter 21 Preservation 1: Fossilization
Chapter 22 Preservation 2: Death
Chapter 23 Preservation 3: Disarticulation, transport and residence
Chapter 24 Preservation 4: Burial and diagenesis
Chapter 25 Trace fossils
Working on your collection at home
Chapter 26 Storage
Chapter 27 Labelling
Chapter 28 Photography at home
Chapter 29 Drawing
Chapter 30 Specializing in your favourite fossil group
Chapter 31 Writing descriptions
Chapter 32 Casting from natural moulds
Chapter 33 Problems with preservation
The wider field: getting involved
Chapter 34 Collaboration
Chapter 35 Scientific societies
Chapter 36 Conferences
Chapter 37 Journals and magazines
Chapter 38 Offprints, PDFs and filing
Chapter 39 Visiting museums
Chapter 40 Ideas for further involvement.
Chapter 41 Publishing I: Persuading you to get involved
Chapter 42 Publishing II: The hard work of self-editing
Chapter 43 Publishing III: How to publish a new species
Fossils in many fields
Chapter 44 The field guide
Chapter 45 Field trip: Den Haag, the Netherlands
Chapter 46 Field trip: The Piltdown Trail
Chapter 47 Field trip: Overstrand to Cromer, Norfolk
Chapter 48 Field trip: Cleveleys, Lancashire
Chapter 49 Field trip: Queen Victoria's bathing beach, Isle of Wight
Chapter 50 Field trip: Salthill Quarry, Clitheroe
Chapter 51 Field trip: Hurdlow, Derbyshire
Chapter 52 Field trip: Antigua
Chapter 53 Field trip: Aktuo-Paläontologie of Southport Beach, Merseyside
Glossary
Index.