The Eocene-Oligocene Transition

Donald R Prothero

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• Describes the Eocene-Oligocene extinctions, an important turning-point in Earth history approximately 40 million years ago, when the first signs of An... Lees meer

Interpreting Pre-Quaternary Climate from the Geologic Record

Judith Totman Parrish

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• Within the geological science of paleoclimatology, the earth's pre-Quaternary period--more than two million years ago--has been studied systematically... Lees meer

The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• Two of the greatest evolutionary events in the history of life on Earth occurred during Early Paleozoic time. The first was the Cambrian explosion of ... Lees meer

One Long Experiment

Ronald Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• Addressing the history of the earth in terms of geological process and the resolution of the fossil record, Ronald Martin presents a report on the cur... Lees meer

Plants Invade the Land

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• What do we now know about the origins of plants on land, from an evolutionary and an environmental perspective? The essays in this collection present ... Lees meer

Triassic Life on Land

Hans-Dieter Sues, Nicholas Fraser

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• The Triassic period is generally viewed as the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs. For paleontologists, however, it also marks the rise of the world's ... Lees meer

When the Invasion of Land Failed

George McGhee

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• The invasion of land by ocean-dwelling plants and animals was one of the most revolutionary events in the evolution of life on Earth, yet the animal i... Lees meer

The Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• The Cambrian radiation was the explosive evolution of marine life that started 550,000,000 years ago. It ranks as one of the most important episodes i... Lees meer

The Northern Adriatic Ecosystem

Frank McKinney

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• The northern Adriatic Sea is transient, most recently flooded between 18,000 to 6,000 years ago following the last glacial maximum, and it will drain ... Lees meer

Exceptional Fossil Preservation

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• This photographically rich volume provides a synthetic overview of a wide sample of Lagerstätten from marine environments reaching back in time to the... Lees meer

The Great Paleozoic Crisis

Douglas Erwin

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• Carefully examines the events recorded at the major Permo-Triassic boundary sections and documents the patterns of extinction and survival among the m... Lees meer

Phanerozoic Sea-Level Changes

Anthony Hallam

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• In order to understand the state of the oceans, researchers turn to the origins of global waters, 90 million years ago. This study explores the subjec... Lees meer

The Great Paleozoic Crisis

Douglas Erwin

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• Carefully examines the events recorded at the major Permo-Triassic boundary sections and documents the patterns of extinction and survival among the m... Lees meer

Dinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era

J David Archibald

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• The first book to approach the Cretaceous extinction -- the period during which dinosaurs disappeared from Earth -- from the perspective of the fossil... Lees meer

Principles of Paleoclimatology

Thomas Cronin

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• Greenhouse gases, global warming, thinning ozone layers--understanding the Earth's climatic changes is one of today's most pressing international conc... Lees meer

The Emergence of Animals

Mark A S McMenamin, Dianna McMenamin

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• The authors explore the late Precambrian and earliest Cambrian fossil record to explain the Cambrian phenomenon and discuss the possibility of a major... Lees meer

Theoretical Morphology

George McGhee

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• Theoretical morphology--which seeks to sketch the range of forms that biological entities could take, with the ultimate goal of discovering why certai... Lees meer

When the Invasion of Land Failed

George McGhee

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleo
• The invasion of land by ocean-dwelling plants and animals was one of the most revolutionary events in the evolution of life on Earth, yet the animal i... Lees meer