Author: Emile A. PessagnoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Franciscan Complex (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Lower Cretaceous Radiolarian Biostratigraphy of the Great Valley Sequence and Franciscan Complex, California Coast Ranges
Author: Emile A. PessagnoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Franciscan Complex (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Paleobiology of the Polycystine Radiolaria
Author: David LazarusPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119697468
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Polycystine radiolaria are exclusively marine protists and are found in all ocean waters, from polar regions to the tropics, and at all water depths. There are approximately 600 distinct described living species and several thousand fossil species of polycystines. Radiolarians in general, and polycystines in particular, have recently been shown to be a major component of the living plankton and important to the oceanic carbon cycle. As fossils radiolarians are also fairly common, and often occur in sediments where other types of fossils are absent. This has made them very valuable for certain types of geologic research, particularly estimating the geologic age of the sediments containing them, and as guides to past oceanic water conditions. As our current understanding of the biology, and even taxonomy of the living fauna is still very incomplete, evolutionary studies based on living polycystines are still rare. However, the common occurrence of numerous specimens for many species, and in a wide variety of oceanic environments, provides an excellent opportunity to study the processes of biologic evolution in the fossil record. Paleobiology of the Polycystine Radiolaria is the first major book on radiolarians to appear in the western literature since 2001. Focusing on living and fossil siliceous shelled radiolarians, it is notable for its emphasis not upon morphologic or taxonomic detail but on concepts and applications. The book attempts to provide a balanced, critical review of what is known of the biology, ecology, and fossil record of the group, as well as their use in evolutionary, biostratigraphic and paleoceanographic research. Full chapters on the history of study, and molecular biology, are the first ever in book form. Written for an audience of advanced undergraduate to doctoral students, as well as for a broad range of professionals in the biological and Earth sciences, Paleobiology of the Polycystine Radiolaria summarizes current understanding of the marine planktonic protist group polycystine radiolaria, both in living and fossil form.
Radiolarians in the Sedimentary Record
Author: P. De WeverPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482283182
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Radiolarians in the Sedimentary Record presents the current state of knowledge on fossil radiolarians. The author discusses the record, as well as new integrated taxonomic systems at the family level. The book provides comprehensive coverage of the fossil record of these unicellular organisms. It also discusses their important role in the history o
Plankton Stratigraphy: Volume 2, Radiolaria, Diatoms, Silicoflagellates, Dinoflagellates and Ichthyoliths
Author: Hans M. BolliPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521367202
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge of the biostratigraphy of marine plankton is the work of an international team of eighteen authors. It covers all the major fossil groups that can be used to date sediments and rocks in the time interval Late Mesozoic to Holocene. Altogether more than 3200 taxa are considered, almost all of which are illustrated and depicted on range charts, making the book a valuable work of reference in the earth sciences. For ease of reference by specialists interested in either calcareous or non-calcareous microfossils, the original work is now divided into two independent volumes. Volume 2 describes siliceous and other non-calcareous microfossils, covering radiolaria, diatoms, silicoflagellates, dinoflagellates and ichthyoliths.
Catalogue and Systematics of Pliensbachian, Toarcian and Aalenian Radiolarian Genera and Species
Author: Špela GorièanPublisher: Založba ZRC
ISBN: 9616568655
Category : Micropaleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Geology of the Northwest African Continental Margin
Author: U.v. RadPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642684092
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 885
Book Description
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
Author: Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Scientific notes and summaries of investigations in geology, hydrology, and related fields.
Geological Evolution of Ocean Basins
Author: Ocean Drilling ProgramPublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862390034
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Advances in the field of marine geoscience through the medium of deep-ocean drilling have been rapid and continue to be so. Part of this text reflects the results of findings from recent legs of the Ocean Drilling Programme. Other parts provide syntheses of the volume of drilling information collected over a period of more than 20 years, which provide a detailed picture of how oceans have evolved since the late Mesozoic. The book should be of interest to marine geologists, sedimentologists, palaeoceanographers and structural geologists.
Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate Boundary in Southern Central America
Author: Paul MannPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813722950
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Contains 17 contributed chapters on the geology and tectonics of Panama, Costa Rica, and offshore areas. Five chapters describe onshore geology, three describe a combination of onshore geology and offshore marine geophysical data and attempt land-sea correlations, six describe marine geophysical dat