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Quo Vadis, Ichnology?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

Adolf Seilacher*
Affiliation:
Geologisches Institut der Universität Tübingen, Sigwartstr. 10,D-7400, Tübingen, Germany and Department of Geology, Yale University, P.O. Box 6666, New Haven, CT 06511

Extract

Nobody knows exactly when and where Lady Ichnology was born; but everybody would agree that she is coming of age. There are unmistakable signs of this: social acceptance, for instance, or its own journal, and a progeny that can only be estimated from the yearly flow of publications and from a regular newsletter sent out in numbers that make book publishers greedy.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 Paleontological Society 

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