Radiolaria - Siliceous Plankton Through Time

Radiolaria are a very diverse marine siliceous microplankton group that have existed at least snice the Cambrian to the recent. This volume gives a representative view of research topics discussed at the 10th International Meeting of Radiolarian Palaeontologists. The articles of this volume cover mainly radiolarian biochronology and radiolarian fauna changes.

List of contents

Turonian Radiolarians from Karnezeika, Argolis Peninsula, Peloponnesus (Greece).- Radiolarian Correlation of Jurassic Siliceous Successions of the Rosso Ammonitico Formation in the Southern Alps and Western Sicily (Italy).- Upper Jurassic Radiolaria from the Vocontian basin of SE France.- The plankton turnover at the Permo-Triassic boundary, emphasis on radiolarians.- An online micropaleontology database: Radiolaria.org.- A new genus of Entactiniidae (Radiolaria) from the Upper Permian of South China.- Radiolarian faunal turnover through the Paleocene-eocene transition, Mead Stream, New Zealand.- Upper Permian to Middle Jurassic radiolarian assemblages of Busuanga and surrounding islands, Palawan, Philippines.- Influence of the Frasnian-Famennian event on radiolarian faunas.- Middle to Upper Permian radiolarian faunas from chert blocks in Pai area, northwestern Thailand.

About the author

Peter Baumgartner, geboren 1969, lebt in Gmunden am Traunsee, Österreich. Er ist Redner und Autor, Wirtschaftsingenieur und Dipl. Pädagoge. Er wurde ausgezeichnet mit dem Wirtschaftsliteraturpreis & Wirtschaftsbuch des Jahres. Er ist Redner auf Kongressen und Tagungen zu: Grenzgänge am Limit, Manager müssen Mut machen und Leadership.

Summary

Radiolaria are a very diverse marine siliceous microplankton group that have existed at least snice the Cambrian to the recent. This volume gives a representative view of research topics discussed at the 10th International Meeting of Radiolarian Palaeontologists. The articles of this volume cover mainly radiolarian biochronology and radiolarian fauna changes.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jonathan Aitchison (Editor), Pete Baumgartner (Editor), Peter Baumgartner (Editor), Patrick De Wever (Editor), Patrick de Wever et al (Editor), Sarah-Jane Jackett (Editor), Patrick de Wever (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Basel
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2007
• EAN: 9783764383435
• ISBN: 978-3-7643-8343-5
• No. of pages: 141
• Dimensions: 213 mm x 9 mm x 274 mm
• Weight: 380 g
• Illustrations: V, 141 p.
• Series: Swiss Journal of Geosciences Supplement; Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiau, Supplement; Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiau, Supplement; Swiss Journal of Geosciences Supplement
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; C, Marine, Fauna, Research, Differentielle und Riemannsche Geometrie, paleontology, Plankton, Earth and Environmental Science, Differential Geometry, Earth System Sciences, Geobiology, Biogeosciences, Differential & Riemannian geometry