Author: Leo J. HickeyPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813711509
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Stratigraphy and Paleobotany of the Golden Valley Formation (Early Tertiary) of Western North Dakota
Author: Leo J. HickeyPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813711509
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Charlie Creek - Belfield Transmission Line Project, North Dakota
Author: Late Eocene and Oligocene Paleosols from Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Author: Greg John RetallackPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813721938
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic History of North American Vegetation
Author: Alan GrahamPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195344375
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This book is a unique and integrated account of the history of North American vegetation and paleoenvironments over the past 70 million years. It includes discussions of the modern plant communities, causal factors for environmental change, biotic response, and methodologies. The history reveals a North American vegetation that is vast, immensely complex, and dynamic.
Tectonic Controls and Signatures in Sedimentary Successions
Author: Lynne E. FrostickPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444304062
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Stratigraphers and sedimentologists who are presently describing and interpreting the infill of sedimentary basins are generally agreed that it is difficult to disentangle the signatures of tectonic processes from those of climate and eustatic sea level change in the resultant rock succession. Until better criteria are developed to distinguish between the roles played by the major variables, it is still most useful to document and interpret basin-fill architectures where we know, from independent evidence, that one of the main controls is likely to have been a major contributor. This book contains a collection of papers describing situations where the tectonic setting is fairly well established, and it can be assumed that at least the tectonic factor has contributed to the resultant signatures.
Late Paleocene-early Eocene Climatic and Biotic Events in the Marine and Terrestrial Records
Author: Marie-Pierre AubryPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231102380
Category : Paleoclimatology
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive collection of the best scholarship available on the transition between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs--when the earth experienced the warmest climatic episode of the Cenozoic era. These 21 contributions detail the major turnover among marine and terrestrial organisms that resulted from sudden global warming.
The Beginning of the Age of Mammals in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Biostratigraphy and Evolution of Paleocene Mammals of the Nacimiento Formation
Author: Thomas E. WilliamsonPublisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Educational Series
Author: Dawn of the Age of Mammals in the Northern Part of the Rocky Mountain Interior, North America
Author: Thomas M. BownPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813722438
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time
Author: Anna K. BehrensmeyerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226041544
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Breathtaking in scope, this is the first survey of the entire ecological history of life on land—from the earliest traces of terrestrial organisms over 400 million years ago to the beginning of human agriculture. By providing myriad insights into the unique ecological information contained in the fossil record, it establishes a new and ambitious basis for the study of evolutionary paleoecology of land ecosystems. A joint undertaking of the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Consortium at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and twenty-six additional researchers, this book begins with four chapters that lay out the theoretical background and methodology of the science of evolutionary paleoecology. Included are a comprehensive review of the taphonomy and paleoenvironmental settings of fossil deposits as well as guidelines for developing ecological characterizations of extinct organisms and the communities in which they lived. The remaining three chapters treat the history of terrestrial ecosystems through geological time, emphasizing how ecological interactions have changed, the rate and tempo of ecosystem change, the role of exogenous "forcing factors" in generating ecological change, and the effect of ecological factors on the evolution of biological diversity. The six principal authors of this volume are all associated with the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems program at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.