Palaeontology Books

This book is a full-color study of over 500 pre-Clovis stone artifacts of Virginia. With the 22K-year date of the Cinmar bipoint in Virginia, there is ample evidence of artifact classes that are older than Clovis. Over 50 tool types are illustrated and...

Dinosaurs have really long and complex names; but surely, they have nicknames. Can you name them? If you can, then you're a star. If you can't yet, then you need some help. Use this wonderful resource to know your dinosaurs, and maybe a fact or two about...

This book includes some of the vital pieces of work being conducted across the world, on various topics related to paleoecology. It strives to provide a fair idea about this discipline and to help develop a better understanding of the latest advances...

This book is a collection of papers presented at the 9th International Conference of Military Geoscience that was held in 2011. The conference included discussion on a diverse range of geosciences, including military history, military geology, teaching...

Contributions to this volume detail paleontologic research in Manonga Valley, and shed important light on the evolutionary development of eastern Africa. Chapters provide novel insights into the taxonomy, paleobiology,...

When dinosaurs were first unearthed in the 19th century, they were reconstructed as lethargic beasts, a stigma associated with ectothermy. This perception prevailed for 150 years. Then John Ostrom rocked the foundations of dinosaur paleontology in the...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Paläontologie, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Löwenfunde in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz stehen im Mittelpunkt des gleichnamigen Taschenbuches des Wiesbadener...

Le livre intitul����� ""Etude sur le transport de l'�����nergie ������ grande distance par l'�����lectricit����� et sur les transmissions �����lectriques par courant continu"" a �����t����� �����crit par Georges Dumont en 1895. Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur...

\"Im August 1893 bot der Schieferhändler Hr. Bernhard Hauff zu Holzmaden in Württemberg dem hiesigen Königliches Museum für Naturkunde ein in seiner Schiefergrube gefundenes Skelet eines Plesiosaurus zum Kauf an. Auf die Erwerbung desselben musste...

Scientific Handicraft V1, Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics, and Pneumatics is a comprehensive guidebook written by John Joseph Griffin in 1873. The book is a descriptive, illustrated, and priced catalogue of apparatus used in scientific experiments...

Geology And Paleontology Of Eighteen Mile Creek And The Lake Shore Sections Of Erie County, New York is a book written by Amadeus William Grabau in 1898. The book is a comprehensive study of the geology and paleontology of the Eighteen Mile Creek and the...

Evolution is presented nowadays something that is an absolute fact and supported by a massive amount of evidence. The people who do not believe in Evolution are seen as desperate and religiously motivated conspiracy theorists. This book thoroughly...

Evrim günümüzde kesin bir gerçek olarak sunulmaktadır ve çok sayıda delille desteklenmektedir. Evrime inanmayan kişiler çaresiz ve dini motivasyonlu komplo teorisyenleri olarak görülüyor. Bu kitap, hem Evrim'in arkasındaki mantığı hem de Evrimi...

Moderne Gehirnwäsche?Ist die Erde wirklich rund vier Milliarden Jahre alt, wie die etablierte historische Geologie uns glauben macht??? -- Es gibt über 70 Beweise und Hinweise für eine junge Erde, für ein Alter um die 10.000 Jahre herum, davon rund 14...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Paläontologie, Note: 2,6, Universität zu Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Nordwestdeutschland lag im Tertiär in einem Wechselbereich von Land und Meer. Dies macht diese...

Fifty million years ago, the Arctic Ocean was a warm sea, bounded by lush vegetation of the warm-temperate shores of Scandinavia, Siberia, Alaska and the Northwest Territories. Wind and storms were rare because Atlantic weather...

Mass Extinction - a general view.- Late Ordovician mass extinction.- The End Ordovician; an ice age in the middle of a greenhouse.- Silurian global events - at the tipping point of climate change.- Late Devonian mass extinction.- Late Permian mass...

The aim of the book is to present original and though-provoking essays in human paleontology and prehistory, which are at the forefront of human evolutionary research, in honor of Professor Yoel Rak (a leading scholar in paleoanthropology).​ ​The...

This book will help readers learn the basic skills needed to study microfossils especially those without a formal background in paleontology. It details key principles, explains how to identify different groups of microfossils, and provides insight into...

Palynology is important in basic as well as in manifold applied sciences, as e.g. biology, medicine, forensics, earth history, climatology and food production. This volume is the first fully illustrated handbook of...

The geologie term "'Tethys" introduced by Eduard Suess (1893) into Reience waR originally a paleogeographic one. Since its original des­ eription it has been used in various ways. One of them is Tethys as a paleo-biogeographie...

It is widely acknowledged that life has adapted to its environment, but the precise mechanism remains unknown since Natural Selection, Descent with Modification and Survival of the Fittest are metaphors that cannot be scientifically tested. In this...

This book offers extensive information on the course of sedimentation in the Proterozoic Vindhyan Basin and the potential record of ancient life stored within the rocks. It covers topics ranging from facies analysis to sequence-building, from carbonates...

This edited book discusses various challenges in teaching structural geology and tectonics and how they have been overcome by eminent instructors, who employed effective and innovative means to do so. All of the chapters were written by prominent and...

This timely book documents marvelous brachiopod fossils from the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic transition of South China. Numerous beautiful pictures and detailed descriptions (specifically the measurements of body size) of brachiopod species are...

Here, a diverse group of geologists and paleobiologists focus their attention on the richly fossiliferous Neogene stratigraphic sections of the Dominican Republic. They provide an updated geological framework and a series of novel studies of evolutionary...

all such systems are important, the Proterozoic column This volume concerns the geology of China, and it examinesthat concern by expositionsofthe stratigraphy, possibly is unique in its continuous sedimentary devel­ the...

This volume is the fourth in the series of the Proceedings of the College Park Colloquia on Chemical Evolution. These Colloquia, and the resulting Proceedings, are presented in the interest of fostering the impact of the...

Multidisciplinary research on the Early-Middle Pleistocene site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov has yielded abundant climatic, environmental, ecological and behavioral records. The 15 archaeological horizons form a sequence of Acheulian occupational episodes on...

The aim of this book is to provide a new insight on Neanderthal behaviour using the data recovered in level J of Romaní rockshelter (north-eastern Spain). Due to the sedimentary dynamics that formed the Romaní deposit, the occupation layers are...

This volume provides a detailed description of a wide range of numerical, statistical or modeling techniques and novel instrumentation separated into individual chapters written by paleontologists with expertise in the given...

Being the only place in the northern North Atlantic yielding late Cainozoic terrestrial sediments rich in plant fossils, Iceland provides a unique archive for vegetation and climate development in this region. This book...

The analysis of vegetation history is one of the prime objectives for vegetation scientists. In order to understand the recent composition of local floras and plant communities a second knowledge of species com­ position during...

This volume integrates the latest findings on earliest life forms, identified and characterised in some of the oldest rocks on Earth. New material from prominent researchers in the field is presented and evaluated in the...

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EVOLUTIONARY PROTISTOLOGY (ISEP) 5th International Meeting 1983 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, June 4-6, 1 For the first time since its inception, at Boston University in June 1975 , the Society for...