taphonomy

Japanese: taphonomy
taphonomy


[Origin of fossils]
Fossils are part of the past biosphere as paleontological organisms, and at the same time, they are one of the materials that make up the present lithosphere. The branch of paleontology that deals with the entire process of transformation between these two is called taphonomy. It deals with the causes of death of paleontological organisms, decomposition of the body's soft tissues, burial outside of their habitat, mechanical destruction of hard tissues prior to burial, selective dissolution, arrangement of the body in the sediment, traces on the sediment surface caused by the body, diagenesis of fossils, nucleation process, deformation of fossils, selective dissolution during diagenesis, molecular rearrangement and recrystallization, formation of nodules in the strata, metasomatism of fossils (the gradual replacement of one mineral by another), and preservation of hard tissues.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "taphonomy" are listed below.

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Japanese:


【化石の成因】
 化石は古生物として過去の生物圏の一員であると同時に,現在は岩石圏を構成する物質の一つである。この間の転化の全過程を対象とする古生物学の分野を化石生成論taphonomyという。ここでは古生物の死因,遺体の軟組織の分解,生息地外の場への埋没,埋没に先立つ硬組織の機械的破壊,選択的溶解,堆積物中における配置様式,遺体により生じた堆積物表面の痕跡,化石の続成過程,石核形成過程,化石の変形,続成過程における選択的溶解,分子の再配列・再結晶,地層中での団塊形成,化石の交代作用(一つの鉱物から他の化学組成をもつ鉱物に漸進的に置換される作用),硬組織の保存などが扱われる。…

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