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Suggested References

Sources:

In the Small Microscope Cabinet (AJS' personal copies) these are available to use in the lab, but are not to leave the lab. Please put them back in the cabinet when leaving.  Thanks.

Cuffey, Roger J. and Davis, Richard A., 1998.  An introduction to the type-Cincinnatian, IN (Cuffey and Davis, Eds.) Sampling the layer cake that isn't: the stratigraphy and paleontology of the type-Cincinnatian, State of Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of the Geological Survey, 13, p. 2-9.

Davis, R.A., 1998.  Cincinnati Fossils, an elementary guide to the Ordovician rocks and fossils of the Cincinnati, Ohio Region, Cincinnati Museum Center,       Cincinnati, Ohio, pp. 1-59, 8 plates.

Feldmann, Rodney M. and Hackathorn, Merriane, 1996.  Fossils of Ohio, Bulletin #70 Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio, pp. 1-577, numerous plates.

Shrake, Douglas, 1992.  Excursion to Caesar Creek State Park in Warren Co., OH: A Classic Upper Ordovician Fossil-Collecting Locality, Guidebook No. 12, for Geological Society of America, Printed by the Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio, p. 1-18, 9 plates


On-line journal articles-available through the Ohiolink Electronic Journal Center:

Holland, Steven M., and Patzkowsky, Mark E., 2004.  Ecosystem Structure and Stability: Middle Upper Ordovician of Central Kentucky, USA
Palaios Volume: 19, Issue: 4, August 1, 2004. pp. 316-331. on line

Morris, Robert W., and Felton, Stephen H., 2003.  Paleoecologic Associations and Secondary Tiering of Cornulites on Crinoids and Bivalves
                      in the Upper Ordovician (Cincinnatian) of Southwestern Ohio, Southeastern Indiana, and
                      Northern Kentucky, Palaios Volume: 18, Issue: 6, pp. 546-558. on line

Webber, Andrew J., 2004.  Methodological advances in the use of faunal gradient analysis for regional high-resolution
correlation in the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Volume: 210, Issue: 2-4, pp. 235-248.  on line

Webber, Andrew J., 2002.  High-Resolution Faunal Gradient Analysis and an Assessment of the Causes of
                      Meter-Scale Cyclicity in the Type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Palaios Volume: 17, Issue: 6, pp. 545-555. on line
 

Journal articles available in the KSU main library in "hardcopy"

Brett, C.E., 1995, Sequence stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and taphonomy in shallow marine
                      environments: Palaios, v. 10, p. 597-616.

Brett, C.E., 1998, Sequence stratigraphy, paleoecology, and evolution: biotic clues and responses to
                      sea-level fluctuations: Palaios, v. 13, p. 241-262.

Holland, S.M., and M.E. Patzkowsky, 1999, Models for simulating the fossil record: Geology, v. 27, p.
                      491-494.

Holland, S.M., 1995, The stratigraphic distribution of fossils: Paleobiology, v. 21, p. 92-109.

Holland, S. M., A. I. Miller, B. F. Dattilo, D. L. Meyer, and S. L. Diekmeyer. 1997. Cycle anatomy and variability in the
storm-dominated type Cincinnatian (Upper Ordovician): coming to grips with cycle delineation and genesis. Journal of Geology
105:135-152.

  And there's more...
A hefty bibliography source list of references about the Cincinnatian can be found by clicking here.

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