Postdoctoral fellow – University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris
Subject: Formation of calcified roots in terrestrial sediments Terrestrial sediments are commonly used for paleoenvironmental reconstructions. However such reconstructions may be biased by the presence of calcified roots (rhizoliths). These objects, which may be rather abundant (up to 20 000 per m2), are usually not syngenetic to the embedding sediment. A better…