Author: Van HintePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004625844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Proceedings of the Second West African Micropaleontological Colloquium, Ibadan 1965
Author: Van HintePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004625844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
proceedings of the second west african micropaleontological colloquium
Author: J. E. van HintePublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Micropaleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Micropalaeontology of Oceans
Author: B. M. FunnellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521076420
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
This 1971 volume presents the proceedings of a Symposium of Micropalaeontology of Marine Bottom Sediments held in Cambridge, England, in September 1967. The collection and paleontological interpretations of deep-sea sediments had only been carried out intensively for the twenty years preceding the book's publication, and it provides a summary of the state of knowledge in this field as it stood. Beginning with a consideration of the organisms in relation to the water in which they live, successive chapters deal with the descent of the skeletons to the sea floor, their entombment in the sediments and their interpretation to elucidate the history of the oceans. It is written by many of the specialists responsible for the development of this field and includes numerous Russian contributions. This book became the definitive compendium for students and workers in oceanography and palaeontology, and is still a useful resource today.
Evolution of the Levant Margin and Western Arabia Platform Since the Mesozoic
Author: Catherine HombergPublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862393066
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This volume combines original data from the offshore and onshore Levant in various fields like sedimentology, palaeontology, geochemistry, structural geology and geophysics. This multidisciplinary approach provides an overview of the development of the Levant Basin and allows discussion of the later geological history and deformation processes of the Levant provinces
Palaeoecology of Africa and the Surrounding Islands - Volume 26
Author: Heine KlausPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135142601X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This volume offers comprehensive and up-to-date information on research in many different disciplines which give an overall insight into the environmental history of Africa.
Patterns of evolution, as illustrated by the fossil record
Author: Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080868460
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
Patterns of evolution, as illustrated by the fossil record
The Zoological Record
Author: The Great Fossil Enigma
Author: Simon J. KnellPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253006066
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
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.
The South Atlantic
Author: Alan NairnPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468430300
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Everyone working in a problem as complex as continental drift, must at some time have feit the need for an objective data summary in fields other than his own. It is a scientific dilemma that, aIthough there is evident need for researchers with competence in many fields (the classical natural scientist), the time in volved in acquiring such broad experience is so great as to ren der the task largely impossible. The alternative seems to be the team approach, and we have espoused it in tbis volume. Editors and contributors alike have tried in this book to keep the accent upon factual information and to reduce interpretation to a minimum. Interpretation there must be, however, since without it science is but an inteHectual pastime comparable to pbilately. The librarian's need to classify results in the appearance of our names upon the spine oftbis volume, however, we would like to make it clear that the book has been a truly cooperative effort and could not have succeeded but for the active help of the individual contributors, whose assistance seldom was re stricted to their chapters. Special thanks must be given to our South American coHeagues, for the tolerance with which they viewed out editorial attempts, and to Dr. E. Machens, for his careful review of the translation of his manu script. We wish also to acknowledge the help of Dr. C. W.
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