Corophium burrows as environmental indicators of Quaternary estuarine sediments of Tayside
- 7 June 1972
- journal article
- Published by Geological Society of London in Scottish Journal of Geology
- Vol. 8 (2) , 145-150
- https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg08020145
Abstract
Synopsis: The postglacial Brackmont Sands of St. Michaels, Fife, contain considerable numbers of small tubes which cut across a horizontally bedded sequence. The tubes closely resemble those constructed by the amphipod crustacean Corophium volutator in the Recent upper estuarine mud flats of the Tay. The environment of deposition of the Brackmont Sands has been variously attributed to fluviatile and marine origin. On the basis of comparative textural properties and burrow morphology it is suggested that the sediments are estuarine.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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