Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The second volume in a series dedicated to fossil discoveries made in the Afar region of Ethiopia, this work contains the definitive description of the geological context and paleoenvironment of the e...
Author: Dingus, Lowell / Norell, Mark Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From his stunning discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (1873-1963), spending most of ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book chronicles the discovery and analysis of animal fossils found in one of the most important paleontological sites in the world-Porcupine Cave, located at an elevation of 9,500 feet in the Col...
Author: Cuif, Jean-Pierre / Dauphin, Yannicke / Sorauf, James E. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fossils are essential to the reconstruction of the evolution of life and episodes in Earth history. Knowledge of biomineralization - the processes associated with the formation of mineralized biologic...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Concern about the effects of global change on our planet's future has driven much current research into the last few thousand years of earth history. In contrast, this volume takes a much longer viewp...
Author: N/A Publisher: CRC Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This guide analyzes the changing geography, the arrival and departures of ecosystems and species, and the affect of climate on living things in the prehistoric seas of the eastern US. The author class...
Author: Wallace, David Rains Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Described as "a writer in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and other self-educated seers" by the San Francisco Chronicle, David Rains Wallace turns his attention in this new book to an...
Author: Hilton, Richard P. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the most geologically complex and diverse states, California spent much of the age of dinosaurs under water. While most of the fossils found in the state are those of reptiles that lived in the...
Author: Runge, J. Publisher: Taylor & Francis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bringing together experts from several disciplines, this volume collects the best papers presented at the international workshop on 'Environmental and Cultural Change in West and Central Africa , held...
Author: Murray,John W. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this volume John Murray investigates the ecological processes that control the distribution, abundance, and species diversity of benthic foraminifera in environments ranging from marsh to the deepe...
Author: Sánchez, Marcelo R. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: How can we bring together the study of genes, embryos and fossils? Embryos in Deep Time is a critical synthesis of the study of individual development in fossils. It brings together an up-to-date revi...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This second volume completes the unique survey of North American Tertiary mammals, and covers all the remaining taxa not contained in Volume 1. It provides a complete listing of mammalian diversity ov...
Author: Levinton, Jeffrey S. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An engaging area of biology for more than a century, the study of macroevolution continues to offer profound insight into our understanding of the tempo of evolution and of the evolution of biological...
Author: Briggs, J.C. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book significantly expands the coverage of this subject given by its predecessor Biogeography and Plate Tectonics (1987). Global Biogeography traces global changes in geography and biology from t...
Author: Laurin, Michel Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: More than three hundred million years ago-a relatively recent date in the two billion years since life first appeared-vertebrate animals first ventured onto land. This usefully illustrated book descri...
Author: Buatois, Luis / M·ngano , M. Gabriela Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ichnology is the study of traces created in the substrate by living organisms. This is the first book to systematically cover basic concepts and applications in both paleobiology and sedimentology, br...
Author: Elsevier Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This beautifully illustrated text book, with state-of-the-art illustrations, is useful not only for an introduction to the subject, but also for the application of marine microfossils in paleoceanogra...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Always a controversial and compelling topic, the origin of life on Earth was considered taboo as an area of inquiry for science as recently as the 1950s. Since then, however, scientists working in thi...
Author: N/A Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Easily distinguished by the horns and frills on their skulls, ceratopsians were one of the most successful of all dinosaurs. This volume presents a broad range of cutting-edge research on the function...
Author: Nichols,Douglas J. / Johnson,Kirk R. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Plants and the K-T Boundary, two of the world's leading experts in palynology and paleobotany provide a comprehensive account of the fate of land plants during the 'great extinction' about 65 milli...
Author: Martill,David M. / Bechly,Gunter / Loveridge,Robert F. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This beautifully illustrated volume describes the entire flora and fauna of the famous Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil - one of the world's most important fossil deposits, exhibiting except...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When the The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as "the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs" and "an historically unparalleled compendium of informat...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to walk the earth, and they represent a substantial portion of vertebrate biomass and biodiversity during the Mesozoic Era. The story of sauropod evolu...
Author: Jones, Robert Wynn Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Palaeontology, the scientific study of fossils, has developed from a descriptive science to an analytical science used to interpret relationships between earth and life history. This book provides a c...
Author: Wallace, David Rains Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Described as "a writer in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and other self-educated seers" by the San Francisco Chronicle, David Rains Wallace turns his attention in this new book to an...
Author: Sampson, Scott D. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This captivating book, laced with evocative anecdotes from the field, gives the first holistic, up-to-date overview of dinosaurs and their world for a wide audience of readers. Situating these fascina...
Description: Living Dinosaurs offers a snapshot of our current understanding of the origin and evolution of birds. After slumbering for more than a century, avian palaeontology has been awakened by startling...
Author: N/A Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Easily distinguished by the horns and frills on their skulls, ceratopsians were one of the most successful of all dinosaurs. This volume presents a broad range of cutting-edge research on the function...
