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- Helps graduate students and professionals learn the basic skills needed to study microfossils --especially those without a formal background in paleontology
- Details and illustrates the major groups of microfossils as well as discusses their ecology and geologic distributions
- Explores applications of microfossils in reference to stratigraphy, paleoenvironment, paleoclimate, petroleum exploration, and paleoceanography
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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An Overview of Microfossils
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Front Matter
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Applications
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book will help readers learn the basic skills needed to study microfossils especially those without a formal background in paleontology. It details key principles, explains how to identify different groups of microfossils, and provides insight into their potential applications in solving geologic problems. Basic principles are addressed with examples that explore the strengths and limitations of microfossils and their geological records. This overview provides an understanding of taphonomy and quality of the fossil records, biomineralization and biogeochemistry, taxonomy, concepts of species, and basic concepts of ecology. Readers learn about the major groups of microfossils, including their morphology, ecology, and geologic history.
Coverage includes: foraminifera, ostracoda, coccolithophores, pteropods, radiolaria, diatoms, silicoflagellates, conodonts, dinoflagellates, acritarch, and spores and pollens. In this coverage, marine microfossils, and particularly foraminifera, are discussed in more detail compared with the other groups as they continue to play a major role in most scientific investigations. Among the various tracers of earth history, microfossils provide the most diverse kinds of information to earth scientists. This richly illustrated volume will help students and professionals understand microfossils, and provide insight on how to work with them to better understand evolution of life, and age and the paleoenvironment of sedimentary strata.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Earth Sciences IIT Bombay, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai Mumbai, India
Pratul Kumar Saraswati
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Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
M.S. Srinivasan
About the authors
M. S. Srinivasan is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geology at Banaras Hindu University. He established the micropaleontology laboratory at BHU and initiated both teaching and research programme in micropaleontology and paleoceanography. His active participation in the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) and other international scientific cruises boosted deep sea research in India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Micropaleontology
Book Subtitle: Principles and Applications
Authors: Pratul Kumar Saraswati, M.S. Srinivasan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14574-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14573-0Published: 29 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79199-9Published: 30 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14574-7Published: 17 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 224
Number of Illustrations: 75 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Paleontology, Oceanography, Ecology