Biopolymers: A Molecular Paleontology Approach

ISBN-13: 9789402407709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 174 str.

Neal S. Gupta

Opis

This book on the science of molecular paleontology features experiments of the morphology, ultrastructure and chemical composition of plant and animal fossils. It examines how organisms transform in earth history and their survivability in the fossil record.

Spis treści

1. Molecular decay of plant biopolymers.- 2. Distribution of cutan in modern leaves.- 3. Organic preservation in fossil leaves.- 4. Migration of organic molecules from sediments to fossil.- 5. Molecular plant transformation of biopolymers in high P-T conditions.- 6. Molecular decay of arthropod biopolymers.- 7. Molecular preservation in Eurypterids.- 8. Transformation of arthropod biopolymers in high P-T conditions.- 9. Molecular preservation in graptolites.- 10. Molecular transformation of bacteria in high P-T conditions.- 11. Preservation of organic fossils in Las Hoyas formation, Spain.​

O autorze

Neal S, Gupta received a PhD in Organic Geochemistry and Paleontology from the University of Bristol (UK) in 2005. He was a postdoc at Yale University 2005-2009. From 2007-2010 he was a joint postdoc at MIT, and also a NASA Astrobiology Fellow (MIT and Geophysical Lab, Carnegie Institution of Washington). He has worked with Derek Briggs, Roger Summons, Rich Pancost and George Cody for his doctoral and postdoctoral work. He was an Assistant Professor in India for a year before returning to the Lab for Terrestrial Environments at Bryant University in 2011. He has edited Chitin: Formation and Diagenesis (also published by Springer in 2011).