Introduction -- Common Trace-Making Endobenthic Invertebrates -- Descriptive Ichnology -- Biophysical Mechanisms of Crab Burrowing -- Ichnozones and their Characterization -- Preservation of Traces -- Ichnofacies and Ichnofabrics -- Spatio-Temporal Changes in Ichnozones -- Geological Significance -- Summary and Conclusions.This book focuses on the world’s largest mangrove delta complex, locat…
Teaching Methodologies in Structural Geology and Tectonics: an Introduction -- Geographic Information Systems in an Undergraduate Structural Geology Course: a Pilot Project at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee -- Self- and Peer-Evaluation of Individual Project Work: an Innovative Course Assessment Method to Increase Student Motivation -- Teaching Structural Geology Te…
1. Introduction -- 2.Precambrian Basement -- 3.Variscan Cycle -- 4.Alpine Cycle -- 5. Cenozoic Basins -- 6. Lithospheric Structure of Iberia, the Balearic Islands and the Continental Shelves -- 7.Relief and Active Processes.Taking a new global approach, this unique book provides an updated review of the geology of Iberia and its continental margins from a geodynamic perspective. Owing to its lo…
1. An introduction to the Alpine cycle -- 2. The Alpine cycle in Iberia: Microplate units and geodynamic stages -- 3.Permian-Triassic rifting stage -- 4.Late Triassic-Middle Jurassic passive margins -- 5. Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous rifting -- 6. Late Cretaceous post-rift to convergence in Iberia -- 7.Lithological successions of the Internal Betic and Flysch units -- 8. Alpine orogeny: Defor…
Chapter1: Introduction -- Chapter2: Ancient mammals of Gondwanan South America -- Chapter3: Early Cenozoic mammals in South America -- Chapter4: Marsupials and other metatheres of South America -- Chapter5: The native ungulates of South America -- Chapter6: The xenarthrans-armadillos, glyptodonts, anteaters, sloths -- Chapter7: The Caviomorphs – First South American Rodents -- Chapter8: The P…
Foreword -- Preface -- Chemical Biosignatures at the Origins -- Organic Matter in Interplanetary Dusts and Meteorites -- Biosignatures of Cellular Components and Metabolic Activity -- The Deep Subseafloor and Biosignatures -- A Systematic Way to Life Detection – Combining Field, Lab and Space Research in Low Earth Orbit -- Mineralogical Identification of Traces of Life -- Biosignatures in Dee…
1. Tracks and Trackways -- 2. Introduction to optical laser scanning and photogrammetry -- 3. Field Methods in Forensic footwear analysis -- 4. Field Methods in vertebrate ichnology -- 5.Techniques in three dimensional digital data handling -- 6. Introduction to DigTrace -- 7. Forensic: Case studies -- 8. Vertebrate ichnology: Case Studies -- 9. Future development -- 10. Appendix: User Manual t…
and History -- The Evolution and Biogeographic History of Metasequoia -- Paleoecology and History of Metasequoia in Japan, with Reference to its Extinction and Survival in East Asia -- A High-Resolution Palynological Analysis, Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic -- Metasequoia in the Oligocene Bridge Creek Flora of Western North America: Ecological Implications and the History of Research…
Classification -- Diversification of Palaeozoic Reptiles -- The Mesozoic Environment -- Amphibious and Early Marine Mesozoic Reptiles -- Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaurs -- Aerial Mesozoic Reptiles -- Terrestrial Mesozoic Reptiles: Size, Locomotion and Thermal Physiology -- Therapsids, Anapsids and Early Diapsids -- The Dinosaurs: Weapons, Display and Reproduction -- Herbivorous Dinosaurs -- Carniv…
The paleoenvironmental context -- Distribution -- Mapping -- Exogenic and endogenic controls -- Coral Biology -- Diversity -- Environmental archive -- Conservation.Following the exciting exploration of hot vent and cold seep ecosystems, the rediscovery of cold-water coral ecosystems with high-technology instrumentation is currently another hot topic in multidisciplinary marine research. Convent…