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Science 18 January 1980:
Vol. 207. no. 4428, pp. 304 - 306
DOI: 10.1126/science.207.4428.304
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Graphoglyptid Burrows in Modern Deep-Sea Sediment

A. A. EKDALE 1

1 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112

The complex, highly patterned, invertebrate burrow systems known as "graphoglyptids" in ancient sedimentary rocks have now been recovered in box cores of modern deep-sea sediment. Spiroraphe, Cosmoraphe, and Paleodictyon occur as grooves in the tops of washed cores, and they apparently were produced and maintained as horizontal tunnel systems just a few millimeters below the sediment surface. These burrows, which are important as indicators of deepwater sedimentary environments in ancient strata, have been predicted in the modern deep sea but have not been found there until now.

Submitted on September 5, 1979
Revised on October 22, 1979


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