Conodont Biofacies and Provincialism
| Author | : David Leigh Clark |
| Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0813721962 |
Conodont Biofacies And Provincialism
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Devonian Climate, Sea Level and Evolutionary Events
| Author | : R. T. Becker, 1st |
| Publisher | : Geological Society of London |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2016-10-20 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1862397341 |
The geological and palaeontological records of climate change and evolutionary events reflect Earth’s widely fluctuating climate systems. Past climates hold the clues to understanding future developments. In this context, research on linked climate, biodiversity and sea-level fluctuations of the Devonian contributes to the general knowledge of deep-time climate dynamics. A fruitful co-operation between the International Geoscience Programme IGCP 596 and the International Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy (SDS) addressed the complex succession of climate-linked Devonian global events of varying magnitude. The primary goal of IGCP 596 was to assess mid-Palaeozoic climate changes and their impact on marine and terrestrial biodiversity using an interdisciplinary approach. The focus of SDS includes a revision of the eustatic sea-level curve and the integration of refined chrono- and biostratigraphy with modern chemo-, magneto-, cyclo-, event- and sequence stratigraphy. This enabled the much improved dating and correlation of abiotic perturbations, evolutionary changes, organism and ecosystem ranges. Results by 37 authors are presented in 14 chapters, which cover the entire Devonian.
The Great Fossil Enigma
| Author | : Simon J. Knell |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 635 |
| Release | : 2012-11-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0253006066 |
A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology’s greatest mysteries: “Deserves to be widely read and enjoyed” (Priscum). Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the eel-like conodont animal as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The search for its identity confounded scientists for more than a century. Some thought it a slug, others a fish, a worm, a plant, even a primitive ancestor of ourselves. As the list of possibilities grew, an answer to the riddle never seemed any nearer. Would the animal that left behind the miniscule fossils known as conodonts ever be identified? Three times the creature was found, but each was quite different from the others. Were any of them really the one? Simon J. Knell takes the reader on a journey through 150 years of scientific thinking, imagining, and arguing. Slowly the animal begins to reveal traces of itself: its lifestyle, its remarkable evolution, its witnessing of great catastrophes, its movements over the surface of the planet, and finally its anatomy. Today the conodont animal remains perhaps the most disputed creature in the zoological world.
Palaeobiogeography and Biodiversity Change
| Author | : Geological Society of London |
| Publisher | : Geological Society of London |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9781862391062 |
Palaeozoic Conodonts from Northern Spain
| Author | : Susana García-López |
| Publisher | : IGME |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Carbonate rocks |
| ISBN | : 9788478404469 |
Microfossils
| Author | : Howard Armstrong |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 446 |
| Release | : 2013-05-21 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1118685458 |
This is a new and completely rewritten edition of the well-known text Microfossils (first published in 1980) covering all the major microfossil groups, with information on taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology and palaeoecology. particular attention is given to the uses of microfossils in environmental reconstruction and biostratigraphy numerous line and half-tone illustrations emphasis on practical applications of micropalaeontology only student-friendly micropaleontology text available
Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath
| Author | : A. Hallam |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, UK |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 1997-09-11 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 0191588393 |
The first book to review all the evidence concerning both the dinosaur extinctions and all the other major extinctions - of plant, animal, terrestrial, and marine life - in the history of life. All the extinction mechanisms are critically assessed, including meteorite impact, anoxia, and volcanism. - ;Why do mass extinctions occur? The demise of the dinosaurs has been discussed exhaustively, but has never been out into the context of other extinction events. This is the first systematic review of the mass extinctions of all organisms, plant and animal, terrestrial and marine, that have occurred in the history of life. This includes the major crisis 250 million years ago which nearly wiped out all life on Earth. By examining current paleontological, geological, and sedimentological evidence of environmental changes, the cases for explanations based on climate change, marine regressions, asteroid or comet impact, anoxia, and volcanic eruptions are all critically evaluated. -
Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy
| Author | : Michael Montenari |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 782 |
| Release | : 2020-10-30 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0128209925 |
Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy, Volume Five in the Advances in Sequence Stratigraphy series, covers research in stratigraphic disciplines, including the most recent developments in the geosciences. This fully commissioned review publication aims to foster and convey progress in stratigraphy with its inclusion of a variety of topics, including Carbon isotope stratigraphy - principles and applications, Interpreting Phanerozoic d13C patterns as periodic glacio-eustatic sequences, Stable carbon isotopes in archaeological plant remains, Review of the Upper Ediacaran-Lower Cambrian Detrital Series in Central and North Iberia: NE Africa as possible Source Area, Calibrating d13C and d18O chemostratigraphic correlations across Cambrian strata of SW, and much more. - Contains contributions from leading authorities in the field - Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field - Aims to foster and convey progress in stratigraphy, including geochronology, magnetostratigraphy, lithostratigraphy, event-stratigraphy, and more
Plants Invade the Land
| Author | : Patricia G. Gensel |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0231111614 |
What do we now know about the origins of plants on land, from an evolutionary and an environmental perspective? The essays in this collection present a synthesis of our present state of knowledge, integrating current information in paleobotany with physical, chemical, and geological data.
