Evolution of a Concept -- Stratigraphy: Evolution of a Concept -- The Search for Patterns: Ordering the Framework -- Buried Time: Chronostratigraphy as a Research Tool -- Ecostratigraphy’s Basis, using Silurian and Devonian Examples, with Consideration of the Biogeographic Complication -- Devonian Palynostratigraphy in Western Gondwana -- Carboniferous and Permian Palynostratigraphy -- Biostr…
Overview -- Production of Mud and Silt -- Transport and Deposition -- Role of Oxygen -- Muddy Depositional Systems -- Burial -- Provenance of Mudstones -- Muddy Basins -- Practicalities.Mud and mudstone, the most abundant of all sediments and sedimentary rocks, are relevant to many different human activities and disciplines and thus have a widely scattered literature. Our book provides the firs…
Foreword.-Introduction -- Chapter 1 Biofaciological zonation of recent benthic foraminifera along a tropical Pacific Colombian shelf-to-slope bathymetric gradient -- Chapter 2 Modern benthic foraminifera of the Panamá Bight -- Chapter 3 Late Pleistocene paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic changes in southern Buenos Aires province, Argentina -- Chapter 4 Turonian Danian Zonation -- Chapter 5 T…
Introduction: HE Weihong, SHI GR, SHEN Shuzhong -- Geographical location and palaeogeographic setting of studied sections: HE Weihong, ZHANG Kexin, SHI GR -- Depositional sequences, biotic assemblages and review on Changhsingian (or late Changhsingian) palaeo-water depths of studied sections: HE Weihong, ZHANG Kexin, SHI GR, XIAO Yifan, BU Jianjun -- Age analysis and stratigraphic correlation: …
Paleontology - systematics -- Biostratigraphy -- Sedimentology -- Tectonics and sedimentation -- Geomorphology - Quaternary geology.This edited volume contains the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018. The volume shares the latest results from paleontological, biostratigraphic and sedimentological s…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. History of research in Lagoa Santa -- Chapter 2. Peter Wilhelm Lund – life and work -- Chapter 3.Peter Wilhelm Lund´s scientific contributions -- Chapter 4. The anthropological studies of Lagoa Santa in the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro: Insertion, debates, and scientific controversies at the turn of 19th to 20th century -- Chapter 5.The physical anthro…