Overview
- Sets the fauna of Yushe basin into its stratigraphic context
- A dated backbone such that faunal occurrences are accurately plotted and distinguished temporally
- Features modern geological field methods, library techniques, and data analysis
- Includes illustrated magnetic diagrams and interpreted magnetostratigraphy
- Carves out a historical niche in presenting the development of modern paleontology in China
- Builds a refined view of faunal succession
- Fundamental data source for many fossil groups
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (VERT)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China embodies the bulk of our knowledge on successions of terrestrial vertebrates in the northern part of East Asia. Everything we know about Asian mammals of the last 6 million years has a historical basis in the documentation of the geology of Yushe. This volume introduces the basin in its geological setting, describes the succession of fossiliferous strata, and shows how it is dated. It develops an unsurpassed level of precision for its age control. Geological maps and stratigraphic sections provide the backbone for individual studies to follow on varied fossil groups. The volume explores the history of exploration of the last century in Yushe Basin and places development of paleontology there into the context of the birth of the modern epoch of science in China.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals
Book Subtitle: Volume I:History, Geology, and Magnetostratigraphy
Editors: Richard H. Tedford, Zhan-Xiang Qiu, Lawrence J. Flynn
Series Title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8714-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8713-3Published: 21 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8378-1Published: 07 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8714-0Published: 20 February 2013
Series ISSN: 1877-9077
Series E-ISSN: 1877-9085
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 109
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Paleontology, Geology, Vertebrates, Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Evolutionary Biology, Biodiversity