Leaf-jams - a new and unique leaf deposit in the ephemeral Hoanib River, NW Namibia: origin and plant taphonomic implications.
- Author(s)
- Christa Hofmann, Alexander Hugh Neville Rice
- Abstract
this paper documents a previously unrecorded type of leaf deposit, comprising essentially monospecific linear accumulations of Colophospermum mopane leaves on a point bar of the ehemeral Hoanib River, NW Namibia. In these "Leaf jams", leaf laminae stand on edge, orientated more-or-less normal to bedding. Leaf-jams, whisch formed upstream of cobbles, clumps of grass and sticks wedged against the former two, were orientated subparallel to the adjacent meandering river-bed, such that over the 40 m of their occurence, their mean azimuth changed by 59° anticlockwise downstream.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Palaeontology, Department of Geology
- Journal
- International Journal of Coal Geology
- Volume
- 83
- Pages
- 195-203
- No. of pages
- 9
- ISSN
- 0166-5162
- Publication date
- 2010
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105118 Palaeontology, 105101 General geology
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/c43b006a-9a19-44a9-bf28-9a4a3445a33e