Author: Charles Doolittle Walcott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Cambrian Geology and Paleontology ...
Author: Charles Doolittle Walcott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Cambrian Ocean World
Author: John Foster
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253011884
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first appearance of complex animals with eyes, protective skeletons, antennae, and complex ecologies. Grazing, predation, and multi-tiered ecosystems with animals living in, on, or above the sea floor became common. The cascade of interaction led to an ever-increasing diversification of animal body types. By the end of the period, the ancestors of sponges, corals, jellyfish, worms, mollusks, brachiopods, arthropods, echinoderms, and vertebrates were all in place. The evidence of this Cambrian "explosion" is preserved in rocks all over the world, including North America, where the seemingly strange animals of the period are preserved in exquisite detail in deposits such as the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. Cambrian Ocean World tells the story of what is, for us, the most important period in our planet's long history.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253011884
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first appearance of complex animals with eyes, protective skeletons, antennae, and complex ecologies. Grazing, predation, and multi-tiered ecosystems with animals living in, on, or above the sea floor became common. The cascade of interaction led to an ever-increasing diversification of animal body types. By the end of the period, the ancestors of sponges, corals, jellyfish, worms, mollusks, brachiopods, arthropods, echinoderms, and vertebrates were all in place. The evidence of this Cambrian "explosion" is preserved in rocks all over the world, including North America, where the seemingly strange animals of the period are preserved in exquisite detail in deposits such as the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. Cambrian Ocean World tells the story of what is, for us, the most important period in our planet's long history.
Cambrian Geology and Paleontology ...: Cambrian and Ozarkian trilobites. 1925. (Pub. 2823)
Author: Charles Doolittle Walcott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Cambrian Geology and Paleontology: Cambrian and Lower Ozarkian trilobites. 1924. (Pub. 2788)
Author: Charles Doolittle Walcott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Cambrian Geology and Paleontology
Author: Charles Doolittle Walcott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Cambrian Geology and Paleontology
Author: Charles Doolittle Walcott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Geology and Paleontology of the Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica
Author: Gerald F. Webers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813711706
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813711706
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Life Traces of the Georgia Coast
Author: Anthony J. Martin
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253006023
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 715
Book Description
Have you ever wondered what left behind those prints and tracks on the seashore, or what made those marks or dug those holes in the dunes? Life Traces of the Georgia Coast is an up-close look at these traces of life and the animals and plants that made them. It tells about how the tracemakers lived and how they interacted with their environments. This is a book about ichnology (the study of such traces) and a wonderful way to learn about the behavior of organisms, living and long extinct. Life Traces presents an overview of the traces left by modern animals and plants in this biologically rich region; shows how life traces relate to the environments, natural history, and behaviors of their tracemakers; and applies that knowledge toward a better understanding of the fossilized traces that ancient life left in the geologic record. Augmented by illustrations of traces made by both ancient and modern organisms, the book shows how ancient trace fossils directly relate to modern traces and tracemakers, among them, insects, grasses, crabs, shorebirds, alligators, and sea turtles. The result is an aesthetically appealing and scientifically grounded book that will serve as source both for scientists and for anyone interested in the natural history of the Georgia coast.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253006023
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 715
Book Description
Have you ever wondered what left behind those prints and tracks on the seashore, or what made those marks or dug those holes in the dunes? Life Traces of the Georgia Coast is an up-close look at these traces of life and the animals and plants that made them. It tells about how the tracemakers lived and how they interacted with their environments. This is a book about ichnology (the study of such traces) and a wonderful way to learn about the behavior of organisms, living and long extinct. Life Traces presents an overview of the traces left by modern animals and plants in this biologically rich region; shows how life traces relate to the environments, natural history, and behaviors of their tracemakers; and applies that knowledge toward a better understanding of the fossilized traces that ancient life left in the geologic record. Augmented by illustrations of traces made by both ancient and modern organisms, the book shows how ancient trace fossils directly relate to modern traces and tracemakers, among them, insects, grasses, crabs, shorebirds, alligators, and sea turtles. The result is an aesthetically appealing and scientifically grounded book that will serve as source both for scientists and for anyone interested in the natural history of the Georgia coast.
Geology's Significant Sites and their Contributions to Geoheritage
Author: R. M. Clary
Publisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 1786206005
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
The contributions in this book explore several geologically significant sites and, in doing so, acknowledge and explore not just the geological exposures themselves, but also the people and issues that are fundamentally intertwined with the history of our science and its impact on our society. Through selective examples of outcrops and locales integral to the history of geology, we explore the evolution of modern geology, as well as the geodiversity and geoheritage of our planet. While the volume is far from comprehensive, the chapters contained herein detail a range for geoheritage value, scale of geoheritage sites and potential for geoheritage opportunities that will promote a broader, richer understanding of the complexity of the geoheritage of Earth. Importantly, many chapters offer a cautionary tale of sites almost lost to posterity and submit their take-away lessons for community mobilization towards geoheritage site protection.
Publisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 1786206005
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
The contributions in this book explore several geologically significant sites and, in doing so, acknowledge and explore not just the geological exposures themselves, but also the people and issues that are fundamentally intertwined with the history of our science and its impact on our society. Through selective examples of outcrops and locales integral to the history of geology, we explore the evolution of modern geology, as well as the geodiversity and geoheritage of our planet. While the volume is far from comprehensive, the chapters contained herein detail a range for geoheritage value, scale of geoheritage sites and potential for geoheritage opportunities that will promote a broader, richer understanding of the complexity of the geoheritage of Earth. Importantly, many chapters offer a cautionary tale of sites almost lost to posterity and submit their take-away lessons for community mobilization towards geoheritage site protection.
Cambrian Geology and Paleontology
Author: Charles Doolittle Walcott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description