Biostratigraphy
Biostratigraphy
Microfossils and Geological Time
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In addition to providing information about ancient environments and macroevolution, microfossils can be used to correlate the absolute ages of rocks. Following the development of biostratigraphy from classical origins into petroleum exploration and deep-ocean drilling, this survey explores in depth the surprisingly wide application of biostratigraphic methods. The book will be essential reading for students and researchers working in basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy, palaeoceanography, palaeobiology and related fields.
- Now recognized as an important disciplinary subject, biostratigraphy is treated here in much greater detail than in other major modern texts
- Brings together biological and geological research in an accessible way
- Discusses applications as well as theory
Product details
January 2008Paperback
9780521048170
480 pages
241 × 170 × 25 mm
0.756kg
198 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Biogeohistory and the development of classical biostratigraphy
- 2. The biostratigraphy of fossil microplankton
- 3. Biostratigraphy: its integration into modern geochronology
- 4. Biostratigraphy and biohistorical theory I: evolution and correlation
- 5. Systemic stratigraphy: beyond classical biostratigraphy
- 6. Biostratigraphy and biohistorical theory II: carving nature at the joints
- 7. Biostratigraphy and chronostratigraphic classification
- 8. On biostratigraphy and biogeohistory
- References
- Index.
