The Composition of Tidally Deposited Growth Lines in the Shell of the Edible Cockle,Cerastoderma Edule
- 1 August 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 65 (3) , 573-581
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400052425
Abstract
The shells of marine invertebrates grow incrementally (Wilbur, 1972). When a section of shell is observed under the microscope, the increments are often visible, separated by fine lines (Fig. 1). Studies of these phenomena have focused chiefly on the periodicity of increment and growth-line formation, principally because of its geological or archaeological application as a ‘biological clock’ (e.g. Wells, 1963; Koike, 1973).This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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