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What does ichnology mean?

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Noun
  1. (paleontology) A branch of paleontology concerned with the study of trace fossils. It can be divided into paleoichnology and neoichnology.
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His research interests include ichnology and geology of the lower Paleozoic of north Wales, the Paleozoic of eastern Canada and Maine, and the Cenozoic of the Antilles.
For several years after this he assisted his father in arranging the museum and compiling tables for the ichnology.
Stratigraphy, sedimentology and ichnology of the Cambrian-Ordovician Saint John Group, southern New Brunswick, Canada.
Detailed outcrop studies show that the ichnology of five subenvironments within IFS are distinctive.
Ichnology, the analysis of such trace fossils, can reveal subtle details of an animal's environment, behavior, and relationships with other species.
The Application of Ichnology to Palaeoenvironmental and Stratigraphic Analysis publishes papers presented at the Geological Society's 2003 Lyell Meeting.

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