Ichnological advancements in process sedimentology and reservoir development

新遗迹学是研究动物如何与沉积物相互作用的学科。这包括动物打洞、行走和生活在沉积物中。化石化的足迹和洞穴被称为遗迹化石或遗迹化石。遗迹化石的研究是非常重要的，因为它已经表明，动物在不同的环境条件下表现出不同的行为;因此，化石遗迹有助于解释沉积环境的性质。这一建议将探索遗迹化石的潜力，以提供来自岩石记录的非常详细的沉积信息。目标是观察沉积岩中的遗迹化石，并从中推断沉积速率、盐度、浊度和可用食物资源的性质。虽然回答所有这些问题将是困难的，但水族馆实验可能有助于测试动物对高沉降、浑浊的水、交替的盐度和波动的氧气的反应。进一步建议我们在现代沉积环境中观察动物-沉积物相互作用，以提供更准确的数据。这将需要从水族馆和户外场所演变的模型应用于岩石记录中的例子，以测试从岩石记录中推断详细数据的可行性。

Neoichnology is the study of how animals interact with sediments. This includes animal burrowing, walking, and living within sediment. Fossilized tracks and burrows are known either as trace fossils or as ichnofossils. The study of trace fossils is very important, because it has been shown that animals behave differently under various environmental conditions; therefore, fossilized traces help interpret the nature of a depositional environment. This proposal will explore the potential for trace fossils to provide very detailed sedimentary information from the rock record. The goal is to look at trace fossils in sedimentary rocks and infer from those, sedimentation rates, salinity, turbidity, and nature of the food resources available. Although answering all of these questions will be difficult, it is likely that aquaria experiments can help test animal responses to high sedimentation, turbid water, alternating salinity, and fluctuating oxygen. It is further proposed that we observe animal-sediment interactions in modern sedimentary environments to provide more accurate data. It will be required that the models evolved from aquaria and outdoor locales be applied to examples in the rock record to test the viability of infering detailed data from the rock record.