Molluscan Systematics and Biostratigraphy

Molluscan Systematics and Biostratigraphy
Author: Jeffrey D. Stilwell
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1992-04-08
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

An investigation of the La Meseta Formation of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula, was initiated to provide a detailed systematic catalogue of the molluscan fauna and to utilize the data to establish a biostratigraphical zonation of the shallow-water shelf faunas for the early Tertiary of Antarctica.

Introduction to Microfossil Biostratigraphy

Introduction to Microfossil Biostratigraphy
Author: M. Dan Georgescu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2021-09-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1527575314

This textbook will appeal to students and graduates making their first steps in the application of both microfossils and stratigraphy. It presents, in detail, the historical development of microfossil biostratigraphy, from its birth to the emergence of sequence stratigraphy, including its roots in classical biostratigraphy. The interplay between the academic and economical challenges, on one hand, and developments in microfossil biostratigraphy, on the other, is explored thoroughly. The book also presents an introduction to the scientific concepts used in microfossil biostratigraphy practice, and the uses in microbiostratigraphy of 25 groups of microfossils, such as algae, protistans, reproductive plant debris, invertebrates, chordates and vertebrates, and microproblematica groups. It also provides a numerical method to calculate the biostratigraphical resolution of these microfossil groups.

Brachiopods

Brachiopods
Author: Paul Copper
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2018-02-02
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1351463098

This collection of conference papers presents information on the molecular genetics, biomineralization, growth and ecology of extant brachiopod stocks (extrapolated back to the Cambrian), and the shell microstructure, taphonomy, paleogeography, evolution, and taxonomy of fossil brachiopods.

Earth and Life

Earth and Life
Author: John A. Talent
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1104
Release: 2012-06-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9048134285

This volume focuses on the broad pattern of increasing biodiversity through time, and recurrent events of minor and major ecosphere reorganization. Intense scrutiny is devoted to the pattern of physical (including isotopic), sedimentary and biotic circumstances through the time intervals during which life crises occurred. These events affected terrestrial, lacustrine and estuarine ecosystems, locally and globally, but have affected continental shelf ecosystems and even deep ocean ecosystems. The pattern of these events is the backdrop against which modelling the pattern of future environmental change needs to be evaluated.

Cretaceous-Tertiary High-latitude Palaeoenvironments

Cretaceous-Tertiary High-latitude Palaeoenvironments
Author: Jane E. Francis
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2006
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781862391970

High-latitude settings are sensitive to climatically driven palaeoenvironmental change and the resultant biotic response. Climate change through the peak interval of Cretaceous warmth, Late Cretaceous cooling, onset and expansion of the Antarctic ice sheet, and subsequently the variability of Neogene glaciation, are all recorded within the sedimentary and volcanic successions exposed within the James Ross Basin, Antarctica. This site provides the longest onshore record of Cretaceous-Tertiary sedimentary and volcanic rocks in Antarctica and is a key reference section for Cretaceous-Tertiary global change. The sedimentary succession is richly fossiliferous, yielding diverse invertebrate, vertebrate and plant fossil assemblages, allowing the reconstruction of both terrestrial and marine systems. The papers within this volume provide an overview of recent advances in the understanding of palaeoenvironmental change spanning the mid-Cretaceous to the Neogene of the James Ross Basin and related biotic change, and will be of interest to many working on Cretaceous and Tertiary palaeoenvironmental change.