Palaeontology has developed from a descriptive science to an analytical science used to interpret relationships between earth and life history. This book highlights its key role in the study of the evolving earth, life history and environmental processes. After an introduction to fossils and their classification, each of the principal fossil groups are studied in detail, covering their biology, morphology, classification, palaeobiology and biostratigraphy. The latter sections focus on the applications of fossils in the interpretation of earth and life processes and environments.
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Applied Palaeontology adopts a holistic, integrated approach to palaeontology, highlighting its key role in studying the earth, life history and environmental processes. After an introduction to fossils and their classification, the principal groups are studied in detail. Latter sections focus on their applications in interpreting earth and life processes and environments. The book concludes with case histories of how our knowledge of fossils is applied, in industry and elsewhere. This is a valuable reference for earth, life and environmental scientists, and petroleum, minerals, mining and engineering professionals.
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Dr Robert Jones works as a biostratigrapher in the oil industry, and has been an honorary associate of The Natural History Museum since 2000.
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Palaeontology incorporates several, overlapping, areas, the principal of which are: Systematic palaeontology, or taxonomy, that is, the documentation, description and classification of new species and higher-level taxa of fossils Phylogenetics, that is, the analysis and interpretation of their evolutionary relationships Palaeobiology, that is, the documentation, analysis and interpretation of their relationships to evolving earth and life processes and environments, and their application to the elucidation thereof Biostratigraphy, that is, the documentation, analysis and interpretation of their ordered succession, their relationships to evolving earth and life history, and their application to the elucidation thereof. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle East, North Sea, Late Cretaceous, Early Cretaceous, Late Jurassic, Late Devonian, Late Miocene, Late Carboniferous, Saudi Arabia, South America, North America, Middle Miocene, Early Carboniferous, Soviet Union, Gulf of Mexico, Middle Jurassic, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Early Miocene, Old World, Palaeobiology Fossil, Natural History Museum, Early Jurassic, Early Permian, North Atlantic New!
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Palaeontology incorporates several, overlapping, areas, the principal of which are: Systematic palaeontology, or taxonomy, that is, the documentation, description and classification of new species and higher-level taxa of fossils Phylogenetics, that is, the analysis and interpretation of their evolutionary relationships Palaeobiology, that is, the documentation, analysis and interpretation of their relationships to evolving earth and life processes and environments, and their application to the elucidation thereof Biostratigraphy, that is, the documentation, analysis and interpretation of their ordered succession, their relationships to evolving earth and life history, and their application to the elucidation thereof. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle East, North Sea, Late Cretaceous, Early Cretaceous, Late Jurassic, Late Devonian, Late Miocene, Late Carboniferous, Saudi Arabia, South America, North America, Middle Miocene, Early Carboniferous, Soviet Union, Gulf of Mexico, Middle Jurassic, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Early Miocene, Old World, Palaeobiology Fossil, Natural History Museum, Early Jurassic, Early Permian, North Atlantic New!
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