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Shipwrecks and Global 'Worming'.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2016Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (66 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781784913168
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shipwrecks and Global 'Worming'DDC classification:
  • 594.165
LOC classification:
  • CC77.U5 P356 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Book title -- Copyright page -- Contents -- About the authors -- Abstract -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Historical Evidence -- Chapter 3. Marine Wood-boring Organisms and their taxonomy -- Molluscan wood-borers: -- Shipworms (Teredinidae) -- Piddocks (Pholadidae: Martesiinae) -- Piddocks(Pholadidae: Xylophagainae) -- Crustacean attack -- Pill-bugs (Sphaeromatidae: Sphaeromatinae) -- Sphaeromatids (Figures 2D, 14) are generally well distributed in the estuaries and backwaters, particularly in the tropics, where they cause extensive superficial damage to timber structures in their intertidal portion (Figure 18). They are also found in -- Gribble (Limnoriidae) -- Chelura (Cheluridae) -- Chapter 4. Wood-borer distribution -- Chapter 5. Recent Findings -- Environment -- The Swash Channel Wreck -- Chapter 6. Conclusions -- APPENDIX I -- SYSTEMATIC TREATMENT OF MARINE WOOD-BORERS -- CHARACTERS OF TAXONOMIC VALUE FOR IDENTIFICATION OF MARINE WOOD-BORERS -- APPENDIX II -- CHECK-LIST OF MARINE WOOD-BORERS -- References -- Untitled.
Summary: This paper presents an account of the marine wood-borers, together with a historical review of literature on their depredation on wooden ships, and on protective methods adopted from antiquity to modern times.
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Book title -- Copyright page -- Contents -- About the authors -- Abstract -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Historical Evidence -- Chapter 3. Marine Wood-boring Organisms and their taxonomy -- Molluscan wood-borers: -- Shipworms (Teredinidae) -- Piddocks (Pholadidae: Martesiinae) -- Piddocks(Pholadidae: Xylophagainae) -- Crustacean attack -- Pill-bugs (Sphaeromatidae: Sphaeromatinae) -- Sphaeromatids (Figures 2D, 14) are generally well distributed in the estuaries and backwaters, particularly in the tropics, where they cause extensive superficial damage to timber structures in their intertidal portion (Figure 18). They are also found in -- Gribble (Limnoriidae) -- Chelura (Cheluridae) -- Chapter 4. Wood-borer distribution -- Chapter 5. Recent Findings -- Environment -- The Swash Channel Wreck -- Chapter 6. Conclusions -- APPENDIX I -- SYSTEMATIC TREATMENT OF MARINE WOOD-BORERS -- CHARACTERS OF TAXONOMIC VALUE FOR IDENTIFICATION OF MARINE WOOD-BORERS -- APPENDIX II -- CHECK-LIST OF MARINE WOOD-BORERS -- References -- Untitled.

This paper presents an account of the marine wood-borers, together with a historical review of literature on their depredation on wooden ships, and on protective methods adopted from antiquity to modern times.

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