Late Eocene And Oligocene Paleosols From Badlands National Park South Dakota
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Late Eocene And Oligocene Paleosols From Badlands National Park South Dakota
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Author : Greg John Retallack
language : en
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Release Date : 1983
Late Eocene And Oligocene Paleosols From Badlands National Park South Dakota written by Greg John Retallack and has been published by Geological Society of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Science categories.
Late Eocene And Oligocene Paleosols From Badlands National Park South Dakota
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Author : Gregory John Retallack
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Late Eocene And Oligocene Paleosols From Badlands National Park South Dakota written by Gregory John Retallack and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.
The White River Badlands
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Author : Rachel C. Benton
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-25
The White River Badlands written by Rachel C. Benton and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-25 with Science categories.
This guide to the South Dakota region that houses the world’s richest fossil beds does “an excellent job of presenting the current state of knowledge” (Choice). The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the world. Even today these rocks continue to yield new specimens brought to light by snowmelt and rain washing away soft rock deposited on a floodplain long ago. The quality and quantity of the fossils are superb: most of the species to be found there are known from hundreds of specimens. The fossils in the White River Group (and similar deposits in the American west) preserve the entire late Eocene through the middle Oligocene, roughly 35-30 million years ago and more than thirty million years after non-avian dinosaurs became extinct. The fossils provide a detailed record of a period of abrupt global cooling and what happened to creatures who lived through it. This book is a comprehensive reference to the sediments and fossils of the Big Badlands, and also touches on National Park Service management policies that help protect such significant fossils. Includes photos and illustrations “A worthy successor to the work of O’Harra.” —Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Special Papers
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Special Papers written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Geology categories.
Late Eocene And Oligocene Paleosols From Badlands National Park South Dakota
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Author : Greg John Retallack
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Late Eocene And Oligocene Paleosols From Badlands National Park South Dakota written by Greg John Retallack and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Science categories.
Late Cretaceous And Cenozoic History Of North American Vegetation
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Author : Alan Graham
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1999-03-25
Late Cretaceous And Cenozoic History Of North American Vegetation written by Alan Graham and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-25 with Science categories.
This book is a unique and integrated account of the history of North American vegetation and paleoenvironments over the past 70 million years. It includes discussions of the modern plant communities, causal factors for environmental change, biotic response, and methodologies. The history reveals a North American vegetation that is vast, immensely complex, and dynamic.
Soils Of The Past
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Author : Gregory J. Retallack
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Soils Of The Past written by Gregory J. Retallack and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
Landscapes viewed from afar have a timeless quality that is soothing to the human spirit. Yet a tranquil wilderness scene is but a snapshot in the steady stream of surficial change. Wind, water and human activities reshape the landscape by means of gradual to catastrophic and usually irreversible events. Much of this change destroys past landscapes, but at some times and places, landscapes are buried in the rock record. This work is dedicated to the discovery of past landscapes and their life through the fossil record of soils. A long history of surficial changes extending back almost to the origin of our planet can be deciphered from the study of these buried soils, or paleosols. Some rudiments of this history, and our place in it, are outlined in a final section of this book. But first it is necessary to learn something of the language of soils, of what happens to them when buried in the rock record and which of the forces of nature can be confidently reconstructed from their remains. Much of this preliminary material is borrowed from soil science, but throughout emphasis is laid on features that provide most reliable evidence of landscapes during the distant geological past. This book has evolved primarily as a text for senior level university courses in paleopedology: the study of fossil soils.
Depositional Environments Lithostratigraphy And Biostratigraphy Of The White River And Arikaree Groups Late Eocene To Early Miocene North America
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Author : Dennis O. Terry
language : en
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Release Date : 1998-01-01
Depositional Environments Lithostratigraphy And Biostratigraphy Of The White River And Arikaree Groups Late Eocene To Early Miocene North America written by Dennis O. Terry and has been published by Geological Society of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Science categories.
Evolutionary Paleobiology Of Behavior And Coevolution
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Author : A.J. Boucot
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2013-10-22
Evolutionary Paleobiology Of Behavior And Coevolution written by A.J. Boucot and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-22 with Science categories.
This book is the culmination of many years of research by a scientist renowned for his work in this field. It contains a compilation of the data dealing with the known stratigraphic ranges of varied behaviors, chiefly animal with a few plant and fungal, and coevolved relations. A significant part of the data consists of ``frozen behavior'', i.e. those in which an organism has been preserved while actually ``doing'' something, as contrasted with the interpretations of behavior of an organism deduced from functional morphology, important as the latter may be. The conclusions drawn from this compilation suggest that both behaviors and coevolved relations appear infrequently, following which there is relative fixity of the relation, i.e., two rates of evolution, very rapid and essentially zero. This conclusion complies well with the author's prior conclusion that community evolution followed the same rate pattern. In fact, communities are regarded here, as in large part, expressions of both behavior and coevolved relations, rather than as random aggregates controlled almost wholly by varied, unrelated physical parameters tracked by organisms, i.e., the concept that communities have no biologic reality, being merely statistical abstractions. The book is illustrated throughout with more than 400 photographs and drawings. It will be of interest to ethologists, evolutionists, parasitologists, paleontologists, and palaeobiologists at research and post-graduate levels.
Methods In Paleoecology
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Author : Darin A. Croft
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-10-27
Methods In Paleoecology written by Darin A. Croft and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-27 with Science categories.
This volume focuses on the reconstruction of past ecosystems and provides a comprehensive review of current techniques and their application in exemplar studies. The 18 chapters address a wide variety of topics that span vertebrate paleobiology and paleoecology (body mass, postcranial functional morphology, evolutionary dental morphology, microwear and mesowear, ecomorphology, mammal community structure analysis), contextual paleoenvironmental studies (paleosols and sedimentology, ichnofossils, pollen, phytoliths, plant macrofossils), and special techniques (bone microstructure, biomineral isotopes, inorganic isotopes, 3-D morphometrics, and ecometric modeling). A final chapter discusses how to integrate results of these studies with taphonomic data in order to more accurately characterize an ancient ecosystem. Current investigators, advanced undergraduates, and graduate students interested in the field of paleoecology will find this book immensely useful. The length and structure of the volume also makes it suitable for teaching a college-level course on reconstructing Cenozoic ecosystems.