White River Badlands - Geology and Paleontology

Informationen zum Autor Rachel C. Benton, Dennis O. Terry, Jr., Emmett Evanoff, Hugh Gregory McDonald Klappentext Rachel C. Benton is Park Paleontologist at Badlands National Park. Dennis O. Terry Jr., is Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at Temple University in Philadelphia. Emmett Evanoff is Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. H. Gregory McDonald¿is Senior Curator of Natural History in the National Park Service Museum Management Program. Zusammenfassung Because the book focuses on a national treasure, it touches on National Park Service management policies that help protect such significant fossils. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Institutional Acronyms 1. History of Paleontologic and Geologic Studies in the Big Badlands 2. Sedimentary Geology of the Big Badlands 3. Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimatic Interpretations from Paleosols 4. Post-depositional Processes and Erosion of the White River Badlands 5. Bones that Turned to Stone: Systematics 6. Death on the Landscape: Taphonomy and Paleoenvironments 7. The Big Badlands in Space and Time 8. National Park Service Policy and the Management of Fossil Resources Bibliography Glossary Index

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• Authors: Rachel C Benton, Rachel C. Benton, Rachel C. Terry Benton, Rachel C./ Terry Benton, Emmett Evanoff, Hugh Gregory McDonald, Dennis O Terry, Dennis O. Terry, Dennis O. Jr. Terry
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2015
• EAN: 9780253016065
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01606-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 222 mm x 292 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Life of the Past; Life of the Past
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Paläontologie, Science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Geologie und die Lithosphäre, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, SCIENCE / Paleontology