Applin later went to work alongside her husband at the United States Geological Survey, with the task of linking the oil fields of East Texas, across the southeaster United States, and into Florida, using micropaleontology and other methods.
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She is also the director of the research group Antarctica and high latitudes Micropaleontology and biostratigraphy from Mesozoic and Cenozoic . She is known for being a trailblazer for women working in Antarctica and a recognized mentor in Antarctic research.
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In addition to providing an excellent tool for sedimentary rock dating and for paleoenvironmental reconstruction & ndash; heavily used in both petroleum geology and paleoceanography & ndash; micropaleontology has also found a number of less orthodox applications, such as its growing role in forensic police investigation or in determining the provenance of archaeological artefacts.
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By far, invertebrate paleozoology is the easiest type of fossil collecting . " Unlike " the difficult-to-analyze and hard-to-interpret fossils of paleobotany ( plants ) and micropaleontology ( microbes ), and " unlike " the rarely found and poorly preserved skeletons of vertebrate paleontology, invertebrate fossils are usually both common and simple to identify.
