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Author : Malcolm C. McKenna
Release : 1972
Genre : Continental drift
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Book Synopsis Possible Biological Consequences of Plate Tectonics by : Malcolm C. McKenna
Download or read book Possible Biological Consequences of Plate Tectonics written by Malcolm C. McKenna. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guntupalli V.R. Prasad
Release : 2020-11-23
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Biological Consequences of Plate Tectonics by : Guntupalli V.R. Prasad
Download or read book Biological Consequences of Plate Tectonics written by Guntupalli V.R. Prasad. This book was released on 2020-11-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recognizes and celebrates the contributions of Professor Ashok Sahni to the field of paleontology. Prof. Sahni established a School of Vertebrate Palaeontology at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, where he trained many of today’s vertebrate paleontologists of India. The book covers topics on evolutionary patterns, macroevolutionary events, origination and radiation events, changes in physical environments & climate and their implications for biodiversity dynamics, intercontinental affinities and biogeographic connections in a plate tectonic framework. The book begins by exploring India in the age of the dinosaurs, discussing new fossil remains from the Jurassic Era, then moves through the Cretaceous and Eocene to provide a picture on faunal and floral changes in Gondwanaland in the context of plate tectonics. Furthermore, the book explores the evolutionary patterns and biotic dispersals that resulted from the northward drift of Indian plate during the Cretaceous and its collision with Asia in the Eocene. The respective chapters reveal the role of plate tectonics and climate in shaping the geographical distribution of plants and animals in Gondwana, specifically in India, as well as the post-India/Asia collision implications for biodiversity changes and biogeography in the region’s continental environments. Given its scope, the book will appeal to vertebrate paleontologists, evolutionary biologists, and paleobiogeographers.
Author : Malte C. Ebach
Release : 2020-10-01
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 73X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Biotectonics by : Malte C. Ebach
Download or read book Biotectonics written by Malte C. Ebach. This book was released on 2020-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tectonic plates are constantly moving, either crashing into one another creating a mosaic of mountains and shallow seas, or tearing apart and isolating large swathes of land. In both cases plate tectonics separates populations leading to the evolution of biota. Tectonics is also responsible for the destruction life, for instance when large coral reefs or shallow seas are compressed to form mountain peaks. Could recent research into these processes provide enough evidence to show that tectonics may be the ultimate driver of life on Earth? Our book delves into the current research in tectonics, particularly neotectonics, and its impact on rapid changes on biogeographical classification, also known as bioregionalisation. We also introduce a new term biotectonics that studies the impact of tectonics on biogeoregionalisation. The question we ask is how tectonics directly influences the distribution of biota in four case studies: the Mesozic and early Palaeogene Australides, which spans the Proto-Pacific coast of the South America, Antaractica and Australiasia; and the Neogene of Australia. To conclude we examine the role of neotectonics on tranistion zones and the Amazon Basin and make a case for biotectonic extinction.
Author : Francis G. Stehli
Release : 2013-03-09
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis The Great American Biotic Interchange by : Francis G. Stehli
Download or read book The Great American Biotic Interchange written by Francis G. Stehli. This book was released on 2013-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two rather different elements combine to explain the origin of this volume: one scientific and one personal. The broader of the two is the scientific basis-the time for such a volume had arrived. Geology had made remarkable progress toward an understanding of the phys ical history of the Caribbean Basin for the last 100 million years or so. On the biological side, many new discoveries had elucidated the distributional history of terrestrial orga nisms in and between the two Americas. Geological and biological data had been combined to yield the timing of important events with unprecedented resolution. Clearly, when each of two broad disciplines is making notable advances and when each provides new insights for the other, the rewards of cross-disciplinary contacts increase exponentially. The present volume represents an attempt to bring together a group of geologists, paleontologists and biologists capable of exploiting this opportunity through presentation of an interdisciplinary synthesis of evidence and hypothesis concerning interamerican connections during the Cretaceous and Cenozoic. Advances in plate tectonics form the basis for a modern synthesis and, in the broadest terms, dictate the framework within which the past and present distributions of organisms must be interpreted. Any scientific dis cipline must seek tests of its conclusions from data outside of its own confines.
Author : Patricia Vickers Rich
Release : 2020-01-15
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 552/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Fossil Book by : Patricia Vickers Rich
Download or read book The Fossil Book written by Patricia Vickers Rich. This book was released on 2020-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded edition of definitive guide for professionals and amateurs presents valuable information about finding, preserving, and studying fossils. Over 1,500 drawings and photographs. "Readable . . . and remarkably comprehensive." — Chicago Sunday Tribune.
