The Proterozoic Biosphere is the first major study of the paleobiology of the Proterozoic Earth. It is a multidisciplinary work dealing with the evolution of the Earth, the environment, and life during the forty percent of Earth's history that extends from the middle of the Precambrian Eon (2500 Ma) to the beginning of the Paleozoic Era (550 Ma.). The Proterozoic Biosphere includes a vast amount of new data on Proterozoic organisms and their modern analogs. Prepared by the Precambrian Paleobiology Research Group, a multidisciplinary consortium of forty-one scientists from eight countries, this monograph will serve as a benchmark in the development of the science of the biochemistry and the organic chemistry of Proterozoic sediments. The three main goals of this study are: (1) to amass, evaluate, and synthesize the large body of paleobiologic data available from previous studies, eliminating mistakes so that future investigations will not be encumbered by them; (2) to generate new data and new analyses based on the reexamination of previous studies and on new investigations within an interdisciplinary framework; (3) to build toward the future by placing special emphasis on new or relatively neglected aspects of paleobiologic study and by highlighting major unsolved problems in the field.
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"...has many merits. Without exception, the contributing authors are distinguished scientists whose interpretations warrant serious consideration. Annotated lists of published fossil occurrences and biogeochemical data, as well as an extensive bibliography, provide ready access to an extensive and often scattered literature." William Sims Bainbridge, Science
"...will surely remain the standard reference of the period...." Leonard T. Boyer, Paleontological Notes
"...documents the vast time interval of about 40 percent of the history of our globe...a conformed level of text and a uniform, easy-to-read prose style." Lynn Margulis, The Quarterly Review of Biology
"...this monumental work will be an essential reference for any student of Proterozoic life, from advanced undergraduate to specialist." J. Hannibal, Choice
"...contains a painstaking testing and development of numerous hypotheses...encyclopedic scope...is undoubtedly a benchmark." Ian J. Fairchild, Nature
"...vast and wide-ranging...here are the experts, and here is the best general survey available of the evolution of life in nearly half the Earth's history...this book has been long needed, and will be a fundamental reference...a compulsory buy for any institution teaching Earth history." Euan Nisbet, New Scientist
"...an important resource that should find its way into libraries. Anyone with a serious interest in the half of recorded Earth history encompassed by the Proterozoic Eon will want to consult it for data compilations, references, and skeletal discussions of life's evolutionary maturation." Andrew H. Knoll, Science
"...an essential addition to the library of any geologist with an interest in the vanished Proterozoic world." Simon Conway Morris, Geology Magazine
"...will surely remain the standard reference of the period...[a] magnificent work..." Leonard Boyer, NY Paleontological Society Notes
"This is an impressive book of about 1348 pages, representing the work of 42 authors. It covers about 2000 million years of earth history from almost every aspect, including the structural and sedimentological evolution of the earth, biogeochemistry, microfossils, body fossils, trace fossils and palaeomagnetic models....[S]hould at least be on the shelf of every earth science library." T.P. Crimes, Geological Journal
"...will surely remain the standard reference of the period...." Leonard T. Boyer, Paleontological Notes
"...documents the vast time interval of about 40 percent of the history of our globe...a conformed level of text and a uniform, easy-to-read prose style." Lynn Margulis, The Quarterly Review of Biology
"...this monumental work will be an essential reference for any student of Proterozoic life, from advanced undergraduate to specialist." J. Hannibal, Choice
"...contains a painstaking testing and development of numerous hypotheses...encyclopedic scope...is undoubtedly a benchmark." Ian J. Fairchild, Nature
"...vast and wide-ranging...here are the experts, and here is the best general survey available of the evolution of life in nearly half the Earth's history...this book has been long needed, and will be a fundamental reference...a compulsory buy for any institution teaching Earth history." Euan Nisbet, New Scientist
"...an important resource that should find its way into libraries. Anyone with a serious interest in the half of recorded Earth history encompassed by the Proterozoic Eon will want to consult it for data compilations, references, and skeletal discussions of life's evolutionary maturation." Andrew H. Knoll, Science
"...an essential addition to the library of any geologist with an interest in the vanished Proterozoic world." Simon Conway Morris, Geology Magazine
"...will surely remain the standard reference of the period...[a] magnificent work..." Leonard Boyer, NY Paleontological Society Notes
"This is an impressive book of about 1348 pages, representing the work of 42 authors. It covers about 2000 million years of earth history from almost every aspect, including the structural and sedimentological evolution of the earth, biogeochemistry, microfossils, body fossils, trace fossils and palaeomagnetic models....[S]hould at least be on the shelf of every earth science library." T.P. Crimes, Geological Journal
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This 1992 book was was the first major study of the paleobiology of the Proterozoic Earth. It is a multidisciplinary work dealing with the evolution of the Earth, the environment and life during the portion of Earth's history between the middle of the Precambrian eon and the beginning of the Paleozoic era.
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This monographic, two-part work is devoted to multifaceted consideration of the nature and evolutionary development of the Proterozoic biosphere and its environment, that is, of the evolution of life and the interrelated history of the atmosphere, oceans, and surficial planetary environment from the beginning of the Proterozoic Eon of geologic time, 2500 Ma ago, to the beginning of the Phanerozoic, a period spanning more than 40% of all of earth history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sphaeromorph acritarch, chroococcacean cyanobacterium, oscillatoriacean cyanobacterium, label from right, algal cycle, acanthomorph acritarch, coccoid prokaryote, coccoid cyanobacterium, colonial coccoid cyanobacteria, pteromorph acritarch, bedded black chert, complex acritarchs, preservational compression, modern cyanobacterial, modern oscillatoriacean cyanobacteria, skeletonized protists, herkomorph acritarch, metazoan trace fossils, cellular trichomes, gray carbonate, filamentous prokaryote, show single specimens, ellipsoidal microfossils, monomethyl alkanes, early skeletal fossils Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Early Cambrian, South Africa, Middle Proterozoic, Tumbiana Formation, Rocknest Formation, Northwest Territories, Gunflint Iron Formation, Chapel Island Formation, Lower Cambrian, Late Archean, Towers Formation, Northern Territory, North America, Middle Cambrian, Conway Morris, Apex Basalt, Early Archean, Rawnsley Wilpena, Shezal Formation, Walcott Member, Amadeus Basin, Sayunei Formation, Jeerinah Formation, Halls Creek, Qingbaikou Sys New!
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This monographic, two-part work is devoted to multifaceted consideration of the nature and evolutionary development of the Proterozoic biosphere and its environment, that is, of the evolution of life and the interrelated history of the atmosphere, oceans, and surficial planetary environment from the beginning of the Proterozoic Eon of geologic time, 2500 Ma ago, to the beginning of the Phanerozoic, a period spanning more than 40% of all of earth history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sphaeromorph acritarch, chroococcacean cyanobacterium, oscillatoriacean cyanobacterium, label from right, algal cycle, acanthomorph acritarch, coccoid prokaryote, coccoid cyanobacterium, colonial coccoid cyanobacteria, pteromorph acritarch, bedded black chert, complex acritarchs, preservational compression, modern cyanobacterial, modern oscillatoriacean cyanobacteria, skeletonized protists, herkomorph acritarch, metazoan trace fossils, cellular trichomes, gray carbonate, filamentous prokaryote, show single specimens, ellipsoidal microfossils, monomethyl alkanes, early skeletal fossils Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Early Cambrian, South Africa, Middle Proterozoic, Tumbiana Formation, Rocknest Formation, Northwest Territories, Gunflint Iron Formation, Chapel Island Formation, Lower Cambrian, Late Archean, Towers Formation, Northern Territory, North America, Middle Cambrian, Conway Morris, Apex Basalt, Early Archean, Rawnsley Wilpena, Shezal Formation, Walcott Member, Amadeus Basin, Sayunei Formation, Jeerinah Formation, Halls Creek, Qingbaikou Sys New!
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