Early Palaeozoic Biogeography And Palaeogeography

Author : D.A.T. Harper
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 1862393737
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Palaeozoic Biogeography and Palaeogeography written by D.A.T. Harper and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early Palaeozoic was a critical interval in the evolution of marine life on our planet. Through a window of some 120 million years, the Cambrian Explosion, Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, End Ordovician Extinction and the subsequent Silurian Recovery established a steep trajectory of increasing marine biodiversity that started in the Late Proterozoic and continued into the Devonian. Biogeography is a key property of virtually all organisms; their distributional ranges, mapped out on a mosaic of changing palaeogeography, have played important roles in modulating the diversity and evolution of marine life. This Memoir first introduces the content, some of the concepts involved in describing and interpreting palaeobiogeography, and the changing Early Palaeozoic geography is illustrated through a series of time slices. The subsequent 26 chapters, compiled by some 130 authors from over 20 countries, describe and analyse distributional and in many cases diversity data for all the major biotic groups plotted on current palaeogeographic maps. Nearly a quarter of a century after the publication of the ‘Green Book’ (Geological Society, London, Memoir12, edited by McKerrow and Scotese), improved stratigraphic and taxonomic data together with more accurate, digitized palaeogeographic maps, have confirmed the central role of palaeobiogeography in understanding the evolution of Early Palaeozoic ecosystems and their biotas.

Author : Michael G. Bassett
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 9781862392861
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Palaeozoic Peri-Gondwana Terranes written by Michael G. Bassett and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the tectonic, palaeogeographical and palaeobiogeographical evolution of the elements that made up the peri-Gondwanan collage.

Author : John A. Long
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palaeozoic Vertebrate Biostratigraphy and Biogeography written by John A. Long and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the last twenty years or so there has been an upsurge in the study of Palaeozoic fishes for solving geological problems, both in areas of biostratigraphy and biogeography. This has resulted in an explosion of data, much of it so new that it will take years for all the recent discoveries to be published. This book has resulted to fill the need to provide up-to-date summaries of global work in progress showing the application of both macroscopic and microscopic remains of Palaeozoic vertebrates to geological correlations, and to refinement of global palaeogeographic reconstructions."--from the Preface. This book offers the first detailed treatment of palaeozoic vertebrates for use in correlations and in biogeographic studies. With thirteen chapters of systematic analysis of biostratigraphic and biogeographic data, it includes invaluable summaries of current research as well as new and significant contributions to the fields of geology and evolutionary biology. With charts and figures that show many of the important fossils discussed in the text, as well as stratigraphic, location, and taxonomic indexes, the book will interest palaeontologists, stratigraphers, and other earth scientists concerned with the early history of life on earth.

Author : Paul Upchurch
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420045520
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palaeogeography and Palaeobiogeography: Biodiversity in Space and Time written by Paul Upchurch and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biogeography represents one of the most complex and challenging aspects of macroevolutionary research, requiring input from both the earth and life sciences. Palaeogeographic reconstruction is frequently carried out by researchers with backgrounds in geology and palaeontology, who are less likely to be familiar with the latest biogeographic techniq

Author : W. S. McKerrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786201751
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Biogeography written by W. S. McKerrow and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Palaeozoic Era, the best evidence for estimating the positions of continents and oceans comes from palaeomagnetism and from the geographical distribution of fossils. This memoir contains contributions from eminent palaeomagnetists and palaeontologists from America, Asia, Australiasia and Europe. The information presented includes the most recent palaeomagnetic and biogeographic data from all major Palaeozoic continents. From this information, a new set of world maps has been produced illustrating successive positions of the continents and oceans throughout the Palaeozoic Era.

Author : Trond H. Torsvik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107105323
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth History and Palaeogeography written by Trond H. Torsvik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a complete Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography, using new and detailed full-colour maps, to link surface and deep-Earth processes.

Author : J. A. Long
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780471944317
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palaeozoic Vertebrate Biostratigraphy and Biogeography written by J. A. Long and published by . This book was released on 1993-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By summarizing and assessing current research on vertebrate biostratigraphy and biogeography for the Palaeozoic period, this work provides a means of refining global Palaeozoic correlations and bringing together the varied research methodologies. The introductory chapters deal with the basic morphology of the vertebrate groups and address issues such as global reconstructions, plate tectonics and palaeogeography.

Author : Maria Liljeroth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119412560
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ordovician rhynchonelliformean brachiopods from Co. Waterford, SE Ireland written by Maria Liljeroth and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. S. McKerrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Biogeography written by W. S. McKerrow and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John A
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 9780813723211
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paleozoic sequence stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and biogeography written by John A and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: