Paleopalynology (Hardcover)

by A. Traverse (Author)
Key Phrases: trilete laesura, cavate cyst, precingular archeopyle, North America, Black Sea, Lower Ordovician (more...)

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a ~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.a (TM) American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Newsletter September 2007, Volume 40, Number 3.

'This book, like the first edition, succeeds admirably and will be a necessary addition to any pollen laboratory. The book could be used as an introductory textbook in a course in geological palynology, but it is also a reference that would be of use in pollen labs or for people needing an introduction to this literature'. Review published in EOS, Vol. 89, No. 11, 11 March 2008, written by Konrad Gajewski, Lab. for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, Dept. of Geography, Univ. of Ottowa, Canada. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Description
This book should be of interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of palaeontology, palaeoecology and palaeopalyncology. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 600 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (June 23, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0045610010
• ISBN-13: 978-0045610013
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