Applied Palaeontology
Applied Palaeontology
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USDPalaeontology has developed from a descriptive science to an analytical science used to interpret relationships between earth and life history. This book highlights its key role in the study of the evolving earth, life history and environmental processes. After an introduction to fossils and their classification, each of the principal fossil groups are studied in detail, covering their biology, morphology, classification, palaeobiology and biostratigraphy. The latter sections focus on the applications of fossils in the interpretation of earth and life processes and environments.
- Emphasis on applications of palaeobiology and stratigraphy
- Contains numerous case histories
- Broad in scope - the applications will be useful to petroleum, mineral, mining and engineering geologists; environmental scientists and environmental archaeologists
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"Students of all grades, as well as many professionals … should enjoy this book, which will definitely extend their vision … Richness in diverse information and proper organization make Jones's book an ideal choice for the library of each modern palaeontologist or geologist."
Paläontologie allgemein
Product details
May 2006Hardback
9780521841993
448 pages
254 × 194 × 27 mm
1.125kg
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Fossils and fossilisation
- 3. Principal fossil groups
- 4. Palaeobiology
- 5. Key biological events in earth history
- 6. Biostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy
- 7. Case histories of applications of palaeontology
- References.
