Low Preservation Potential

• Littoral Zone (beach env.)

  High energy env. organisms rapidly broken up by abraision and attrition
• Terrestrial Env. (Land)


  Likely to decay, be scavaged or eroded unless rapidly hurried

  Exceptions are peat bogs, tar pits, swamps and resin
• Metamorphism


  At low grade may still be recognisable but distorted or deformed with loss of detail