Primary audience: Petroleum geologists and palaeontologists Secondary auudience: The subject matter will appeal to researchers in sedimentologist, stratigraphy, and sedimentary geochemistry.
Individual sections of the book would cover the following subjects: A) General Concepts of Ichnology: B) Ichnofacies Summaries: The Unifying Concept in Ichnology Continental Ichnofacies Marine Softground Ichnofacies Substrate-Specific Ichnofacies C) Individual Ichnogenera Photographic Atlas Dwelling Burrows: Deposit-Feeding Burrows Grazing Burrows Resting Traces Escape Structures Root Structures Cryptic bioturbation D) Ichnological summary pages for the recognition of facies associations representative of: Fluvial Systems Lacustrine Environments Deltas: River-and Wave-Influenced Non-Deltaic (Strandplain) Shorefaces Incised Valleys (including estuaries) Brackish Bays Deep-Water environments E) Ichnological applications and implications for high-resolution sequence stratigraphic frameworks F) Reservoir Ichnology