Biostratigraphy - Microfossils and Geological Time

Klappentext Essential reading for advanced students and researchers working in basin analysis! sequence stratigraphy! palaeoceanography! palaeobiology and related fields. Zusammenfassung Using fossils to tell geological time! biostratigraphy balances biology with geology. This important modern synthesis explores the origins and development of the subject! and the surprisingly wide application of biostratigraphic methods. Essential reading for advanced students and researchers working in basin analysis! sequence stratigraphy! palaeoceanography! palaeobiology and related fields. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Biogeohistory and the development of classical biostratigraphy; 2. The biostratigraphy of fossil microplankton; 3. Biostratigraphy: its integration into modern geochronology; 4. Biostratigraphy and biohistorical theory I: evolution and correlation; 5. Systemic stratigraphy: beyond classical biostratigraphy; 6. Biostratigraphy and biohistorical theory II: carving nature at the joints; 7. Biostratigraphy and chronostratigraphic classification; 8. On biostratigraphy and biogeohistory; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: McGowran Brian, Brian McGowran, Brian (University of Adelaide) Mcgowran
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521048170
• ISBN: 978-0-521-04817-0
• No. of pages: 480
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Palaeontology