Paleozoology And Paleoenvironments

Author : J. Tyler Faith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108570445
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments written by J. Tyler Faith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments outlines the reconstruction of ancient climates, floras, and habitats on the basis of animal fossil remains recovered from archaeological and paleontological sites. In addition to outlining the ecological fundamentals and analytical assumptions attending such analyzes, J. Tyler Faith and R. Lee Lyman describe and critically evaluate many of the varied analytical techniques that have been applied to paleozoological remains for the purpose of paleoenvironmental reconstruction. These techniques range from analyses based on the presence or abundance of species in a fossil assemblage to those based on taxon-free ecological characterizations. All techniques are illustrated using faunal data from archaeological or paleontological contexts. Aimed at students and professionals, this volume will serve as fundamental resource for courses in zooarchaeology, paleontology, and paleoecology.

Author : J. Tyler Faith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108480357
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments written by J. Tyler Faith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines the ecological fundamentals, assumptions, and techniques for reconstructing past environments using fossil animals from archaeological and paleontological sites.

Author : Rituparna Bose
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642348548
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devonian Paleoenvironments of Ohio written by Rituparna Bose and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carbonate depositional systems in the Paleozoic geologic time represent fewer studies in paleoecological interactions than the siliciclastic systems. To evaluate this difference, the paleontology of the Middle Devonian Dundee Formation in Ohio has been explored. This geologic formation represents an important environment in the Michigan Basin of North America. Understanding biotic relationships such as mutualism, commensalism, parasitism and predation in an ecological community is important in unraveling the mystery of the fossil record. This research has contributed a large field collection which will be useful in documenting the fossil content of this unit for future workers. Rituparna Bose used new microscopic and imaging techniques in qualitatively analyzing the biotic interactions in small invertebrate shells. More importantly, she solved complex hypotheses in newly emerging problems in the field of geology and paleontology, such as the biodiversity crisis. Her study involved exploring the Devonian geology and paleontology of a geologic formation of a new unexplored quarry in Ohio, namely the Whitehouse Quarry in Lucas County, Ohio. She identified Devonian brachiopods to the genus level based on their morphology, and diagnosed paleoecological entities on host brachiopods and further measured episkeletobiont traces on hosts to understand the effects of environment and evolution on extinct species. Such studies have implications in predicting future biodiversity, ecosystem conservation and climate change. This research will also assist future workers to compare the ecology of brachiopod hosts of the Dundee Limestone with that of other Devonian brachiopods, from both carbonate and siliciclastic settings.

Author : Pierre Francus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402020612
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Image Analysis, Sediments and Paleoenvironments written by Pierre Francus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-19 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to imaging techniques for sedimentologists, paleolimnologists, paleoceanographers and microscopists involved in paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Case studies illustrate the range of information obtainable from different sediments (marine, lacustrine, aeolian) and different types of samples (cores, embedded blocks, microscopic slides) using different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum (visible, UV, IR, X-ray). Includes comprehensive protocols, guidelines, and recommendations for the use of low cost image analysis techniques.

Author : L.DeWayne Cecil
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402021461
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth Paleoenvironments: Records Preserved in Mid- and Low-Latitude Glaciers written by L.DeWayne Cecil and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glaciers provide an unparalleled tool for studying global environmental change. This book is the first of its kind concentrating on the paleoenvironmental record archived in mid- and low-latitude glaciers. By concentrating mainly on the last 500 years of these records, we can now see that laws enacted to protect our environment in Europe and North America are providing positive results. Documenting global mid- and low-latitude paleoenvironmental records in glaciers, this volume forms a timely and essential complement to the wealth of literature on polar and Greenland ice sheet records. This text is directed towards undergraduate and graduate university audiences and forms an ideal supplement in courses dealing with climate and global environmental change, glaciology, and natural resources management. It is also suitable in helping teach application of innovative analytical and interpretive methods and would be an excellent example of the rapidly emerging discipline of "Forensic Earth Science".

Author : Jeffrey D. Stilwell
Publisher : American Geophysical Union
ISBN 13 : 9780875909479
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paleobiology and Paleoenvironments of Eocene Rocks written by Jeffrey D. Stilwell and published by American Geophysical Union. This book was released on 2000-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Antarctic Research Series, Volume 76. Michael K. Brett-Surman, George Washington University, observed that, "being a paleontologist is like being a coroner except all the witnesses are dead and all the evidence has been left out in the rain for 65 million years." In the study of paleontology in Antarctica it could also be added that, if not left out in the rain, most of the evidence remains buried beneath several thousand feet of ice. Elucidating the geologic history of the Antarctic continent will always be plagued with this problem. Nonetheless, numerous clever means have been used to extract as much information as is possible, and as presented in this volume. In this light, one of the most intriguing time intervals in Antarctic history is the Eocene Epoch. During this time, the climatic conditions deteriorated rapidly from the so-called "Greenhouse" conditions that dominated Earth's conditions from mid-Mesozoic time through the early Cenozoic to the "Icehouse" conditions that have dominated the climate since that time. Unfortunately, the record of Eocene rocks on the continent is sparse. On the Antarctic Peninsula, specifically on Seymour Island, a robust record of Eocene rocks and fossils has provided virtually all the information we possess about this time interval. Thus the discovery and description of Eocene erratic boulders in morainal deposits in the McMurdo Sound region provides only the second site on the entire continent where we can study the paleontology of this time interval. In all likelihood, the description of erratics containing fossils from any other place in the world would warrant little study and would attract even less attention. However, when most of the vast area of Antarctica lies beneath ice and when clues to the nature of the crust of that part of the continent can be extracted only from study of erratics, the discovery carries with it some excitement.

Author : Walter E. Dean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, USA written by Walter E. Dean and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the results of a coordinated, multidisciplinary study of Cretaceous carbonate and clastic rocks in cores collected along a transect across the old Cretaceous seaway that extended from the Gulf Coast to the Arctic by a team of academic, industry and US Geological Survey scientists.

Author : R. Lee Lyman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139471120
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quantitative Paleozoology written by R. Lee Lyman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantitative Paleozoology describes and illustrates how the remains of long-dead animals recovered from archaeological and paleontological excavations can be studied and analyzed. The methods range from determining how many animals of each species are represented to determining whether one collection consists of more broken and more burned bones than another. All methods are described and illustrated with data from real collections, while numerous graphs illustrate various quantitative properties.

Author : R.K. Chhem
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540488332
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paleoradiology written by R.K. Chhem and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diagnostic paleoradiology is the use of X-ray studies to detect ancient diseases. The broad range of themes and imaging techniques in this volume reflects four decades of research undertaken by Don Brothwell in anthropology, human paleopathology, and zooarchaeology, combined with two decades of skeletal radiology experience during which Rethy Chhem read over 150,000 X-ray and CT studies. All the authors are leading experts in the fields of Radiology and Bioanthropology.

Author : Brian J. Skinner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paleontology and Paleoenvironments written by Brian J. Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: