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| * By direct comparison with living forms (however, points to remember…) | * By direct comparison with living forms (however, points to remember…) | ||
| - | ** the modern ocean is currently at a “highstand” setting with the continental shelves more-or-less fully submerged. Sea levels have been (much) higher and lower in the past and change constantly under geologic timescales | + | |
| - | ** modern global oceanic circulation patterns date only from the Pliocene after the Isthmus of Panama finally closed, separating the Atlantic from the Pacific Ocean and allowing the Gulf Stream to form. Another significant event occurred in the earlier Cenozoic with the opening of the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica which first allowed complete global circulation around the Southern Ocean. | + | * - modern global oceanic circulation patterns date only from the Pliocene after the Isthmus of Panama finally closed, separating the Atlantic from the Pacific Ocean and allowing the Gulf Stream to form. Another significant event occurred in the earlier Cenozoic with the opening of the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica which first allowed complete global circulation around the Southern Ocean. |
| - | ** there is always a loss of information through the fossilisation process & diagenesis | + | * - there is always a loss of information through the fossilisation process & diagenesis |
| - | ** some extinct fossil groups(e.g. graptolites, | + | * - some extinct fossil groups(e.g. graptolites, |
| * Morpho-functional analysis – working out what “bits” of an organism has what function and how that function was “useful” to the living organism | * Morpho-functional analysis – working out what “bits” of an organism has what function and how that function was “useful” to the living organism | ||
| * Association of fossils with sedimentary facies and their associated trace fossils for which the environment is already known | * Association of fossils with sedimentary facies and their associated trace fossils for which the environment is already known | ||
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