Andy Rindsberg wrote:
> Bas,
>
> This is interesting. Sometimes you can deal with many factors simultaneously
> by outlining them, then devising a series of tests that apply to whole
> groups of possibilities at once. Geologists call this "the method of
> multiple working hypotheses" although it is not only used in geology.

(snip)

In the case of renourishment projects, it is only necessary to
look at the number of shell fragments (including "protected" S.
gigas) with bits of tissue and fresh periostracum attached.

Probably a pretty accurate census of what used to be there.

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