Microfossils are ideally suited to environmental studies because their short generation times allow them to respond rapidly to environmental change. This book represents an assessment of the progress made in environmental micropalaeontology and sets out future research directions. The taxa studied are mainly foraminifera, but include arcellaceans, diatoms, dinoflagellates, and ostracodes. The papers themselves range from reviews of applications of particular taxa to specific case studies.

This book offers a comprehensive review of the entire field of taphonomy, the science of fossil preservation. It describes the formation of plant and animal fossils in oceanic, terrestrial and river settings and how this affects deciphering the ecology and extinction of past lifeforms and the environments in which they lived. Coverage emphasizes a process approach to the subject and reviews the taphonomic behavior of all important taxa, both plant and animal. The book will be of main interest to advanced students and professionals working in paleontology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, climate...

Microfossils are ideally suited to environmental studies because their short generation times allow them to respond rapidly to environmental change. This book represents an assessment of the progress made in environmental micropalaeontology and sets out future research directions. The taxa studied are mainly foraminifera, but include arcellaceans, diatoms, dinoflagellates, and ostracodes. The papers themselves range from reviews of applications of particular taxa to specific case studies.

Earth’S Evolving Systems: The History Of Planet Earth, Second Edition Explores The Complex Processes And Interactions That Have Shaped Our Planet. Employing A Systems Perspective, This Introductory Text Covers Topics Such As The Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, And Biosphere, And Discusses How These Systems, Plate Tectonics, And Life Have Interacted With Each Other And Evolved Through Geologic Time. This Approach To Earth’S History Integrates The Study Of Modern Earth Systems With Past Ones Piquing Students’ Interest In The Process. No Other Text Bridges The Gap...

Analyzes the impulse of major 19th- and 20th-century American writers to undermine not only their inherited paradigms of literary and linguistic thought but to question how paradigms themselves are constructed.