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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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The stratigraphy, sedimentology, and ichnology of the Mabou Group and Cumberland Group, western Cape Breton Island, eastern Canada.
Invertebrate ichnology of continental freshwater environments.
Ichnology, the analysis of such trace fossils, can reveal subtle details of an animal's environment, behavior, and relationships with other species.
Detailed outcrop studies show that the ichnology of five subenvironments within IFS are distinctive.
For several years after this he assisted his father in arranging the museum and compiling tables for the ichnology.
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.

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