Mesozoic Biotas Of Scandinavia And Its Arctic Territories

Author : B.P. Kear,J. Lindgren,J.H. Hurum,J. Milàn ,V. Vajda
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781862397484

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Mesozoic Biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic Territories by B.P. Kear,J. Lindgren,J.H. Hurum,J. Milàn ,V. Vajda Pdf

Scandinavia and its Arctic territories of Svalbard and Greenland represent geographical regions with a long history of Mesozoic palaeontology. However the last few decades have witnessed a surge of new discoveries, especially from the famous Triassic and Late Jurassic Lagerstätten of East Greenland and Spitsbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago, together with the Late Cretaceous strata of southern Sweden and UNESCO World Heritage locality at Stevns Klint in Denmark; the latter recording one of the most complete terminal Mesozoic rock successions known globally. Collectively, these deposits encompass the spectrum of Mesozoic biotic evolution from the explosive radiation of marine faunas after the Permian-Triassic extinction and seminal specialization of amniotes for life in the sea, to the Late Triassic–Jurassic domination of the land by dinosaurs and Cretaceous development of modern terrestrial floras and marine ecosystems. This volume authored by leading experts in the field encapsulates key aspects of the latest research, and will provide a benchmark reference for future investigations into the Scandinavian Mesozoic world.

Author : Lawrence H. Tanner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319680095

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The Late Triassic World by Lawrence H. Tanner Pdf

This volume presents the latest science on all significant geological and paleontological aspects of the Earth during the Late Triassic Period. Rather than presenting a collection of narrowly focused research papers, the volume consists of a series of peer-reviewed chapters on specific aspects of the Late Triassic world (e.g., tectonics, magmatism, paleobotany, climate, etc.), all authored by experts in the subject of their respective chapters. Each chapter reviews and summarizes the latest findings in these fields and also includes a review of the pertinent literature. The author list is very broadly international and forms a veritable who’s who of expertise in these fields. The book is loosely organized to present the physical aspects of Earth during the Late Triassic at the outset, followed by the paleontological aspects. The latter section is further organized to present the record of the marine environment first before moving onto land, with fauna followed by flora. The volume closes with a review of the end-Triassic extinctions.

Author : ADRIAN P. HUNT,SPENCER G. LUCAS
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE ICHNOLOGY OF VERTEBRATE CONSUMPTION: DENTALITES, GASTROLITHS AND BROMALITES by ADRIAN P. HUNT,SPENCER G. LUCAS Pdf

Author : James O. Farlow
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780253037169

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Noah's Ravens by James O. Farlow Pdf

How can the tracks of dinosaurs best be interpreted and used to reconstruct them? In many Mesozoic sedimentary rock formations, fossilized footprints of bipedal, three-toed (tridactyl) dinosaurs are preserved in huge numbers, often with few or no skeletons. Such tracks sometimes provide the only clues to the former presence of dinosaurs, but their interpretation can be challenging: How different in size and shape can footprints be and yet have been made by the same kind of dinosaur? How similar can they be and yet have been made by different kinds of dinosaurs? To what extent can tridactyl dinosaur footprints serve as proxies for the biodiversity of their makers? Profusely illustrated and meticulously researched, Noah's Ravens quantitatively explores a variety of approaches to interpreting the tracks, carefully examining within-species and across-species variability in foot and footprint shape in nonavian dinosaurs and their close living relatives. The results help decipher one of the world's most important assemblages of fossil dinosaur tracks, found in sedimentary rocks deposited in ancient rift valleys of eastern North America. Those often beautifully preserved tracks were among the first studied by paleontologists, and they were initially interpreted as having been made by big birds—one of which was jokingly identified as Noah's legendary raven.

Author : B. Levell,M. Bowman
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786202772

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Petroleum Geology of NW Europe by B. Levell,M. Bowman Pdf

Published by the Geological Society on behalf of PGC Ltd. (1 hardback volume in slipcase). The 8th Conference on the Petroleum Geology of NW Europe was held in September 2015 and marked the 50th anniversary of the first commercial discovery offshore in the North Sea (West Sole, in September 1965). Its focus was ‘50 Years of Learning – a Platform for Present Value and Future Success’ and its objective was to provide an update on discoveries, developments, technologies and geological concepts from the region. The 39 extensively illustrated technical papers cover the full width of recent activity and are divided into the following sections: Plays and fairways; Play assessment; Recent successes and learnings from failures; Infrastructure-led exploration and development; Late-life fields, re-development and the ‘next life’; Onshore exploration and development. The proceedings volume follows the format of many of the previous conferences since the first in 1974. Collectively these provide a unique documentation of the discovery and development of several NW European hydrocarbon provinces. The volume will be of interest to all geoscientists involved in exploration and development in NW Europe. It provides a fascinating overview of how creativity can continue to reveal hidden resources in an area that has been called ‘mature’ for at least the last 20 of its 50-year history.

Author : Eva Panagiotakopulu,Jon P. Sadler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118561355

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Biogeography in the Sub-Arctic by Eva Panagiotakopulu,Jon P. Sadler Pdf

There is no escaping the fact that the island biogeography of the North Atlantic Region is singularly peculiar. Sitting in the north of the Atlantic Ocean, these islands have been subjected to largescale shifts in climate over the last few million years, unlike the other island groups further south which were likely more buffered from the vicissitudes of Quaternary climate changes. Uniquely for a group of islands there is only one documented extinction in the North Atlantic (the Great Auk), and those in the insects are local events relating to species that are distributed throughout the Palaearctic region. Over half the insect species in Iceland and Greenland are introduced. The faunas, excluding Greenland, are predominantly of Palaearctic origin and have close affinities with the faunas of Scandinavia and the British Isles and. These unique physical and biological characteristics have interested biologists and biogeographers for centuries. The key debates concerning the biogeography of the North Atlantic islands still rumble on: Do the biota reflect cryptic refugia or otherwise, or tabula rasa and recolonization? How important were human communities in shaping the existing biota and biogeographical patterns? Throw into this mix current concerns over global warming, and we can now ask, how resilient is the biota to change, either natural or anthropogenic? This volume draws together a range of researchers with longstanding research interests in the region, from diverse academic backgrounds, to evaluate some of these questions.

Author : John L. Riley,National Research Council Canada
Publisher : NRC Research Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 0660189410

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Flora of the Hudson Bay Lowland and Its Postglacial Origins by John L. Riley,National Research Council Canada Pdf

The Hudson Bay Lowland is the Earth's largest more or less continuous temperate wetland landscape. This book documents 816 native and 95 non-native vascular plants in the context of the distinct geological history and ecology of the area. It includes text and annotated checklist that are complemented by distribution maps and colour illustrations.

Author : Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6NTP

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Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia: F. Lichens by Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Johnson's (revised) Universal Cyclopaedia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : WISC:89094373669

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Johnson's Univeral Cyclopædia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UIUC:30112057100213

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Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433003240334

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Johnson's New Universal Cyclopædia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1802 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433003240581

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Johnson's New Universal Cyclopædia : a Scientific and Popular Treasury of Useful Knowledge by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arctic Institute of North America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1634 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : UOM:39015053321306

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Arctic Bibliography by Arctic Institute of North America Pdf

Author : Maire Tremaine
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 1616 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1967-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780773593992

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Arctic Bibliography by Maire Tremaine Pdf