The History and Geological Importance
of Marine Bioerosion in the Phanerozoic
(Modified from a presentation made
at the Spring 2000 Meeting
of the American Geophysical Union
in Washington, D.C., by Mark
A. Wilson)
Bioerosion
is the "erosion of substrate by means of biological procedures"
(Neumann, 1966).
Marine bioerosion includes biotic boring, drilling, rasping, scraping
and otherwise reducing hard substrates in the oceans or at their
margins.
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