Ancient Earth Journal The Early Cretaceous

Author : Juan Carlos Alonso,Gregory S. Paul
Publisher : Walter Foster Jr
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781627888905

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Ancient Earth Journal: The Early Cretaceous by Juan Carlos Alonso,Gregory S. Paul Pdf

A 2016 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12 (National Science Teachers Association-Children's Book Council The Early Cretaceous brings readers closer to prehistoric life than ever before. What it would be like to see a living, breathing dinosaur? The Early Cretaceous brings readers closer to prehistoric life than ever before. By combining the latest paleontological findings with highly detailed, intimate drawings of wildlife from the Early Cretaceous, readers will look into the eyes of some of the most fascinating creatures to ever inhabit the earth. Written and illustrated in the style of a naturalist's notebook, the viewer will be given a first-hand account of what it is like to stand alongside everything from the first birds to flying dinosaurs to some of the largest creatures ever to walk the earth. Through detailed illustrations and descriptive narrative, readers will discover how some dinosaurs survived polar blizzards, while others were able to pump blood five stories high to reach their brains. While many books on prehistoric life lump dinosaurs into the general timeline of the Mesozoic Period, no book currently dissects plant and animal life during one specific period. This allows the book to explore wildlife seldom featured in publications, many of them recent discoveries. The Early Cretaceous is backed by the research of one of paleontology's most acclaimed theorists, giving the book the most up to date scientific interpretation regarding animal behaviors, interactions, and recreations. "The illustrations and artistic layout are exceptionally beautiful. This is a book children will cherish, keep, and remember, and adults will be delighted to add to their collection." - Sylvia Czerkas, Author and Director The Dinosaur Museum, Utah "The illustrations are fantastic! The Nigersaurus 'grazing' is one of the nicest reconstructions of a rebbachisaurid I've ever seen." - Matthew C. Lamanna, Ph.D., Assistant Curator, Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History "Fantastic artwork!" - Andrew Milner, Paleontologist and Curator at St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site "The art is amazing" - Phil Hore, National Dinosaur Museum, Australia "I *love* it! The style reminds me of a very cool sci-fi book that I had as a kid (and still have), Dougal Dixon's After Man: A Zoology of the Future. Dixon's book is a wonderful, lavishly illustrated introduction to evolutionary principles that helped set me on the path to becoming a professional paleontologist. I suspect your book is going to be similarly inspirational to many of today's aspiring scientists." - Matthew C. Lamanna, Ph.D., Assistant Curator, Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Author : Juan Carlos Alonso,Gregory S. Paul
Publisher : Walter Foster Jr.
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781633220331

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Ancient Earth Journal: The Early Cretaceous by Juan Carlos Alonso,Gregory S. Paul Pdf

Written and illustrated in the style of a naturalist's notebook, The Early Cretaceous brings readers closer to prehistoric life than ever before.

Author : Gregory S. Paul
Publisher : Walter Foster Jr
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781633222472

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Ancient Earth Journal: The Late Jurassic by Gregory S. Paul Pdf

Through detailed illustrations and descriptive narrative, readers will experience a thrilling, thoroughly enjoyable ride through the most popular time period of prehistory. What would it be like to see a living, breathing dinosaur? Following in the footsteps of Ancient Earth Journal: The Early Cretaceous, this next installment, The Late Jurassic, will take readers further back in time to a period when giants ruled the land and early mammals began to secure their place alongside the dinosaurs. The Late Jurassic period was home to many species of our favorite dinosaurs, such as Apatosaurus (or Brontosaurus), Allosaurus, and Stegosaurus, to name a few. The Late Jurassic includes the latest paleontological findings to build an accurate depiction of the dinosaurs, environment, and wildlife of the period. Due to the abundance of fossils available for both plants and animals of this period, the book paints a vivid, realistic picture of the flora and fauna of the time, with more emphasis on hunting and defensive tactics, as well as early mammals and their role in the planet's evolution, for a thrilling, thoroughly enjoyable ride through the most popular time period of prehistory. Written and illustrated in the style of a naturalist's notebook, the reader is given a first-hand account of what it would be like to stand alongside some of the largest creatures to ever walk the earth.

Author : Karen Valentin
Publisher : FaithWords
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781455539857

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The Mother God Made Me to Be by Karen Valentin Pdf

My journey from newlywed, to mother of two, to single mom - trying to heal - and become the mother God made me to be Karen lived an adventurous single life but longed for a family of her own. After years of maintaining her vow of purity and waiting for a man who shared her Christian faith, she fell in love with her best friend and co-worker. They married. She bore two sons. They divorced. With humor, honesty and raw emotion, Valentin tells her story of wrestling between God's will and her own, with visions of happily ever after. In the midst of her weakness and grief, she experiences God's strength and restoration like never before. Through her family and friends, mission workers, the pastor of Graffiti Church, and her two beautiful boys, God turns her ashes to beauty and her sorrow into joy. The Mother God Made Me to Be contains a discussion guide for book clubs and church groups. karenvalentin.com

Author : Trond H. Torsvik,L. Robin M. Cocks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107105324

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Earth History and Palaeogeography by Trond H. Torsvik,L. Robin M. Cocks Pdf

This book provides a complete Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography, using new and detailed full-colour maps, to link surface and deep-Earth processes.

Author : Adam M. Booth,Anita L. Grunder
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813700625

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From Terranes to Terrains by Adam M. Booth,Anita L. Grunder Pdf

Author : I. Davison,J. Hull,J. Pindell
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786204943

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The Basins, Orogens and Evolution of the Southern Gulf of Mexico and Northern Caribbean by I. Davison,J. Hull,J. Pindell Pdf

This volume brings together 17 comprehensive, data-rich analyses to provide an updated perspective on the Mexican Gulf of Mexico, Florida and northern Caribbean. The papers span a broad range of scales and disciplines from plate tectonic evolution to sub-basin scale analysis. Papers are broadly categorised into three themes: 1) geological evolution of the basins of the southern Gulf of Mexico in Mexico, Bahamas and Florida and their hydrocarbon potential; 2) evolution of the region’s Late Cretaceous to Neogene orogens and subsequent denudation history; and 3) geological evolution of the basins and crustal elements of the northern Caribbean. This book and its extensive data sets are essential for all academic and exploration geoscientists working in this area. Two large wall maps are included as fold-outs.

Author : Juan Carlos Alonso,Gregory S Paul
Publisher : Walter Foster Jr
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781942875314

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The Early Cretaceous by Juan Carlos Alonso,Gregory S Paul Pdf

Written and illustrated in the style of a naturalist's notebook, The Early Cretaceous brings readers closer to prehistoric life.

Author : J. David Archibald
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780801898051

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Extinction and Radiation by J. David Archibald Pdf

This study identifies the fall of dinosaurs as the factor that allowed mammals to evolve into the dominant tetrapod form. It refutes the single-cause impact theory for dinosaur extinction and demonstrates that multiple factors--massive volcanic eruptions, loss of shallow seas, and extraterrestrial impact--likely led to their demise. While their avian relatives ultimately survived and thrived, terrestrial dinosaurs did not. Taking their place as the dominant land and sea tetrapods were mammals, whose radiation was explosive following nonavian dinosaur extinction. The author argues that because of dinosaurs, Mesozoic mammals changed relatively slowly for 145 million years compared to the prodigious Cenozoic radiation that followed. Finally out from under the shadow of the giant reptiles, Cenozoic mammals evolved into the forms we recognize today in a mere ten million years after dinosaur extinction.

Author : Vivien Gornitz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402045516

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Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments by Vivien Gornitz Pdf

One of Springer’s Major Reference Works, this book gives the reader a truly global perspective. It is the first major reference work in its field. Paleoclimate topics covered in the encyclopedia give the reader the capability to place the observations of recent global warming in the context of longer-term natural climate fluctuations. Significant elements of the encyclopedia include recent developments in paleoclimate modeling, paleo-ocean circulation, as well as the influence of geological processes and biological feedbacks on global climate change. The encyclopedia gives the reader an entry point into the literature on these and many other groundbreaking topics.

Author : Miman Zhang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fossils
ISBN : 7532373185

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The Jehol Biota by Miman Zhang Pdf

Author : Marcelo Reguero,Francisco Goin,Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche,Tania Dutra,Sergio Marenssi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400754911

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Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota and its Intercontinental Affinities by Marcelo Reguero,Francisco Goin,Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche,Tania Dutra,Sergio Marenssi Pdf

One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals, etc., recovered from uppermost Cretaceous/ Paleogene deposits of West Antarctica, South America, and NewZealand/Australia. For some twenty five extensive and productive investigations in the field of vertebrate paleontology has been carried out in latest Cretaceous and Paleogene deposits in the James Ross Basin, northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP), West Antarctica, on the exposed sequences on James Ross, Vega, Seymour (=Marambio) and Snow Hill islands respectively. The available geological, geophysical and marine faunistic evidence indicates that the peninsular (AP) part of West Antarctica and the western part of the tip of South America (Magallanic Region, southern Chile) were positioned very close in the latest Cretaceous and early Paleogene favoring the “Overlapping” model of South America-Antarctic Peninsula paleogeographic reconstruction. Late Cretaceous deposits from Vega, James Ross, Seymour and Snow Hill islands have produced a discrete number of dinosaur taxa and a number of advanced birds together with four mosasaur and three plesiosaur taxa, and a few shark and teleostean taxa.

Author : Juan Carlos Alonso (Graphic designer),Gregory S. Paul
Publisher : Walter Foster Jr
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781942875307

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The Early Cretaceous by Juan Carlos Alonso (Graphic designer),Gregory S. Paul Pdf

Written and illustrated in the style of a naturalist's notebook, The Early Cretaceous brings readers closer to prehistoric life than ever before.

Author : John S. MacLean,James W. Sears
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Belt Supergroup
ISBN : 9780813725222

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Belt Basin: Window to Mesoproterozoic Earth by John S. MacLean,James W. Sears Pdf

With its thickness of more than 15 km of strata, covering some 200,000 km2, the Belt basin displays one of the planet's largest, best-exposed, most accessible, and best-preserved sequences of Mesoproterozoic sedimentary and igneous rocks. This volume focuses on research into this world-class province; kindles ideas about this critical era of Earth evolution; and covers aspects of the basin from its paleontology, mineralogy, sedimentology, and stratigraphy to its magmatism, ore deposits, geophysics, and structural geology.

Author : Guillermo W. Rougier,Agustín G. Martinelli,Analía M. Forasiepi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030638627

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Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners by Guillermo W. Rougier,Agustín G. Martinelli,Analía M. Forasiepi Pdf

This book summarizes the most relevant published paleontological information, supplemented by our own original work, on the record of Mesozoic mammals’ evolution, their close ancestors and their immediate descendants. Mammals evolved in a systematically diverse world, amidst a dynamic geography that is at the root of the 6,500 species living today. Fossils of Mesozoic mammals, while rare and often incomplete, are key to understanding how mammals have evolved over more than 200 million years. Mesozoic mammals and their close relatives occur in a few dozen localities from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru spanning from the Mid- Triassic to the Late Cretaceous, with some lineages surviving the cataclysmic end of the Cretaceous period, into the Cenozoic of Argentina. There are roughly 25 recognized mammalian species distributed in several distinctive lineages, including australosphenidans, multituberculates, gondwanatherians, eutriconodonts, amphilestids and dryolestoids, among others. With its focus on diversity, systematics, phylogeny, and their impact on the evolution of mammals, there is no similar book currently available.