Author: Thomas Glasdir RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
GSA Cincinnati '81 Field Trip Guidebooks: Stratigraphy, sedimentology
Author: Thomas Glasdir RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
GSA Cincinnati '81 Field Trip Guidebooks: Economic geology, structure
Author: Thomas Glasdir RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
GSA Cincinnati '81 Field Trip Guidebooks: Geormorphology, hydrogeology, geoarcheology, engineering geology
Author: GSA Cincinnati '81 Field Trip Guidebooks
Author: Stratigraphic Paleobiology
Author: Mark E. PatzkowskyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226649393
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late 1700s, Georges Cuvier argued for a literal interpretation, but in the early 1800s, Charles Lyell’s gradualist view of the earth’s history required a more nuanced interpretation of that same record. To this day, the tension between literal and interpretive readings lies at the heart of paleontological research, influencing the way scientists view extinction patterns and their causes, ecosystem persistence and turnover, and the pattern of morphologic change and mode of speciation. With Stratigraphic Paleobiology, Mark E. Patzkowsky and Steven M. Holland present a critical framework for assessing the fossil record, one based on a modern understanding of the principles of sediment accumulation. Patzkowsky and Holland argue that the distribution of fossil taxa in time and space is controlled not only by processes of ecology, evolution, and environmental change, but also by the stratigraphic processes that govern where and when sediment that might contain fossils is deposited and preserved. The authors explore the exciting possibilities of stratigraphic paleobiology, and along the way demonstrate its great potential to answer some of the most critical questions about the history of life: How and why do environmental niches change over time? What is the tempo and mode of evolutionary change and what processes drive this change? How has the diversity of life changed through time, and what processes control this change? And, finally, what is the tempo and mode of change in ecosystems over time?
Field Trip Guides for Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Southeastern and North-Central Sections, Lexington, Kentucky, April 4-6, 1984
Author: Nicholas RastPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Guidebook for Field Trips
Author: Geological Society of America. Southeastern SectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
South-Eastern Section of the Geological Society of America
Author: Thornton L. NeatheryPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813754062
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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