Roland Goldring

Field Palaeontology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Field Palaeontology provides a comprehensive, rigorous and unique approach to the analysis of fossils and sediments and offers a practical field guide which no palaeontology student can afford to be without. The past decade has seen immense changes in palaeontology and in the study of sedimentary rocks in general. This edition has been thoroughly revised to take into account these advancements in the subject to produce a book that is unique in its coverage of palaeontology and sedimentology. It aims to provide a basis for evaluating the information potential of fossiliferous sediments, and then to give an outline of the strategy and tactics whicn can be adopted in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 686g
• ISBN-13: 9781138151062
• ISBN-10: 1138151068
• Artikelnr.: 69991114

Autorenporträt

Goldring, Roland

Inhaltsangabe

1. Principles and classification.
2. Field strategies.
3. Taphonomy of body fossils.
4. Fossil identification.
5. Body fossils for the palaeontologist and palaeoecologist.
6. Shell concentrations and skeletal elements as hydraulic and
environmental indicators.
7. Fossils for the stratigrapher and structural geologist.
8. Trace fossils and bioturbation.