Paleopalynology : Second Edition

Alfred Traverse

ISBN 10: 1402056095 / ISBN 13: 9781402056093

Edité par Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands, 2007

A propos de cet article

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Paleopalynology, second edition, provides profusely illustrated treatment of fossil palynomorphs, including spores, pollen, dinoflagellate cysts, acritarchs, chitinozoans, scolecodonts, and various microscopic fungal and algal dispersal bodies. The book serves both as a student text and general reference work. Palynomorphs yield information about age, geological and biological environment, climate during deposition, and other significant factors about the enclosing rocks.Extant spores and pollen are treated first, preparing the student for more difficult work with fossil sporomorphs and other kinds of palynomorphs. Recognizing that palynomorphs occur together in rocks because of chemical robustness and stratigraphic distribution, not biological relationship, the central sections are organized stratigraphically. Among many other topics presented are the sedimentation and geothermal alteration of palynomorphs, and palynofacies analysis. An appendix describes laboratory methods. The glossary, bibliographies and index are useful tools for study of the literature.

N° de réf. du vendeur 9781402056093

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Paleopalynology : Second Edition
• Éditeur: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1402056095
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781402056093
• Reliure: Buch
• Édition: 2ème Édition
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 241 L x 160 H x 50 P (en millimètres) 241 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 50 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 1396 grammes

A propos de ce titre

Synopsis

This book provides complete coverage of all aspects of the study of all fossil palynomorphs yet studied. It is a profusely illustrated treatment. It follows the first edition in being the only English language, one-volume, one-author treatment of the whole field. The book serves both as a student text and general reference work.

The book gives directions for the collection of rock samples from which they can be separated, and the lab methods used in preparation of fossils from such rocks. The gradual introduction of concepts, and the stratigraphic organization of presentation, makes it possible to learn palynology from this book with a minimum of supervision. The glossary, bibliographies and index are useful tools for study of the literature.

À propos de l?auteur

Alfred Traverse first encountered palynology, then a smaller subject called 'pollen analysis', in courses at Cambridge University under Harry Godwin and others, in 1946-47. At Harvard University he did a Ph. D. dissertation with E. S. Barghoorn on a mid-Cenozoic palynoflora, it was in 1951 the first doctoral dissertation on paleopalynology in the USA. He then worked as a coal technologist and palynologist for the U.S. Bureau of Mines and Shell Oil Company, 1951-1965, and became Assistant Professor of Palynology at Pennsylvania State University, 1966-92. He was guest professor of palynology at the Swiss Federal Technical Institute, 1980-81, and at the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, Germany, 1991-92. He is now Emeritus Professor Palynology at Penn State, and continues to do research in the field. His publications in palynology cover all geological periods from Ordovician to present, and many of the kinds of palynomorphs, as well a such contributions to general palynological topics as the books, Paleopalynology (1^st Ed., Unwin-Hyman, 1988), and Sedimentation of Organic Particles (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994). He was for some years Editor of the Catalog of Fossil Spores and Pollen, and remains keenly interested in nomenclature and systematics of fossil palynomorphs.