Palaeontology

Stratigraphic Micropaleontology of Atlantic Basin and Borderlands

Mass extinctions, the fossil record, and whether we can avoid a disastrous human-made mass extinction event.

This book aims to clarify the issue of groundwater in coastal saline environment management.

An ontogenetic series of Deltasuchus motherali helps clarify its niche and resolve a contested part of the crocodyliform family tree.

Through the original writings and photography of renowned geologist Harold Rollin Wanless, this book paints a thorough and engaging picture of the White River Badlands' landscape, geology, biology, pioneer settlers, and how life was lived 100 years ago in a harsh, challenging, remote setting.

Outlines the use of Macrostrat and Rockd, and provides examples of how to integrate them into a variety of courses.

Life on Earth has been evolving and interacting with the surface and atmosphere for almost four billion years.

Belemniten (Donnerkeile, Teufelsfinger) waren räuberische Kopffüßler, die im Jura die Weltmeere besiedelt haben.

This book discusses the Lagoa Santa Karst, which has been internationally known since the pioneering studies of the Danish naturalist Peter Lund in the early 1800s.

The first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, arguing that animals have always played a range of roles in human societies.

The first book to describe all 13 species of otters, shows the beauty, ecology and fascination of otters in the world, also their plight in many countries.

This book presents selected works of contemporary evolutionary morphologists and includes such topics as broad scale reconstructions of the brain and ear of dinosaurs, inference of locomotor habits from cancellous bone architecture in fossil primates, and a comparison of the independently evolved manipulating apparatuses in the lesser and giant pandas.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Relatively, a new discipline, Paleontology is the study of ancient Life forms that have inhabited our earth, and of the fossils that remain behind.

Mammalian predators are keystone species in any ecosystem.

Deep in the wilderness of northern Maine in the mid-1950s, a Harvard PhD student is wading down a mountain stream into a remote valley.

This two-volume work is a testament to the abiding interest and human fascination with ammonites.

This 2-volume set provides a state-of-the-art study of the fossil record and taxonomy of the main vertebrate groups from Greece.

Covers the background, methods, and case studies of uranium isotopes (238U/235U), a tool for understanding Earth''s environmental transitions.

This book offers extensive information on the course of sedimentation in the Proterozoic Vindhyan Basin and the potential record of ancient life stored within the rocks.

Being the only place in the northern North Atlantic yielding late Cainozoic terrestrial sediments rich in plant fossils, Iceland provides a unique archive for vegetation and climate development in this region.

Over the past 25 years, a stream of fossil and artifact discoveries in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia has produced the longest single record of human ancestors in the world.

The fossil record contains unique long-term insights into how ecosystems form and function which cannot be determined simply by examining modern systems.

An in-depth look at the fish that inhabit the fresh waters of Britain and Ireland.

This two-volume book provides a comprehensive, detailed understanding of paleoclimatology beginning by describing the "e;proxy data"e; from which quantitative climate parameters are reconstructed and finally by developing a comprehensive Earth system model able to simulate past climates of the Earth.

This book summarizes the taxonomic details of selected fossil angiosperm pollen genera and species along with their affinity and occurrences in space and time.

This volume presents a suite of detailed stratigraphic and sedimentologic investigations of the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, one of the world's foremost terrestrial archives of lacustrine and alluvial deposition during the warmest portion of the early Cenozoic.

This richly illustrated book provides an overview of the Neoproterozoic Pan-African Belt of Egypt (PABE), which represents the northwestern continuation of the Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) and the East African Orogen (EAO).

The main focus of this book is on providing students, neurosurgery trainees, certified neurosurgeons and colleagues in neighbouring disciplines essential information on the evolution of the central nervous system (CNS) of craniata and homo.

As a novel endeavour in ecological science, this book focuses on a major issue in organismal life on Earth:species coexistence.

Glaciers provide an unparalleled tool for studying global environmental change.

Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period.

Demonstrates how Africa''s physical features, savannas and abundant grazers enabled frugivorous apes to become savanna-living hunters.

Plio-Pleistocene sites are a rare occurrence in same sites.

This Element provides an introduction to the application of thallium isotopes, case studies, and future directions.

It is difficult for today's students of archaeology to imagine an era when chronometric dating methods were unavailable.

Why are humans so fond of water?

The extent to which human activity has influenced species extinctions during the recent prehistoric past remains controversial due to other factors such as climatic fluctuations and a general lack of data.

Scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to rapid climate change.

A scientific excursion into folklore, zoology, and cryptozoology, this text highlights a field, often called a pseudoscience, which seriously considers the possible existence of hidden or unknown animals not recognised in conventional zoology.

Globally, there are at least 45 species of game bird that have the word partridge in their name, but in this book G.

Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution is well established as the foremost palaeontology text at the undergraduate level.

Palaeobiogeography is a complex subject which processes information provided by both Biology and Earth Sciences.

The graptolites constitute one of the geologically most useful taxonomic groups of fossils for dating rock successions, understanding paleobiogeography and reconstructing plate tectonic configurations in the Lower Palaeozoic.

This book proposes a unique and comprehensive integrated synthesis of the current understanding of the science of Himalayan dynamics and its manifestations on physical systems and ecosystems at different spatial and temporal scales.

This edited volume contains the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018.

This book focuses on the evolution of sedimentary basins of the Arabian Plate and its surroundings.

This volume delves into a spectrum of theoretical as well as applied aspects of high-resolution stratigraphic approaches in paleontology.

This book broadens readers' understanding of the stratigraphic framework and structural styles for improved hydrocarbon prospectivity in the intermediate and deeper horizons of the eastern Coastal Swamp Depo-belt of Nigeria's Niger Delta Basin.