Research Catalog

Title

Microfossils.

Author

Armstrong, Howard, 1957-

Publication

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

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Additional Authors

Brasier, M. D.

Description

vii, 296 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Microfossils is an essential reference tool and laboratory guide for undergraduate and graduate students of micropalaeontology."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Micropaleontology

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Microfossils / M.D. Brasier. 1980.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Pt. 1. Applied micropalaeontology -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Micropalaeontology, evolution and biodiversity -- Ch. 3. Microfossils in stratigraphy -- Ch. 4. Microfossils, stable isotopes and ocean-atmosphere history -- Ch. 5. Microfossils as thermal metamorphic indicators -- Pt. 2. The rise of the biosphere -- Ch. 6. The origin of life and the early biosphere -- Ch. 7. Emergence of eukaryotes to the Cambrian explosion -- Ch. 8. Bacterial ecosystems and microbial sediments -- Pt. 3. Organic-walled microfossils -- Ch. 9. Acritarchs and prasinophytes -- Ch. 10. Dinoflagellates and ebridians -- Ch. 11. Chitinozoa -- Ch. 12. Scolecodonts -- Ch. 13. Spores and pollen -- Pt. 4. Inorganic-walled microfossils -- Ch. 14. Calcareous nannoplankton : coccolithophores and discoasters -- Ch. 15. Foraminifera -- Ch. 16. Radiozoa (Acantharia, Phaeodaria and Radiolaria) and Heliozoa -- Ch. 17. Diatoms -- Ch. 18. Silicoflagellates and chrysophytes -- Ch. 19. Ciliophora : tintinnids and calpionellids -- Ch. 20. Ostracods -- Ch. 21. Conodonts -- App. Extraction methods.

ISBN

0632052791 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004003936

OCLC

• ocm54487430
• SCSB-5169548

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries