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Biopolymers

A molecular paleontology approach

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Authors:
  1. Neal S. Gupta

    1. Department of Science and Technology Laboratory for Terrestrial Environments, Bryant University, Smithfield, USA

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  • Biopolymer transformation in organisms during fossilization are used in an organismic approach to evaluate their contribution to sedimentary organic matter
  • Features investigations including experiments of the morphology, ultrastructure and chemical composition of diverse terrestrial plant and animal fossils
  • Presents how various biomolecules that constitute organisms transform in earth history and shed light on their occurrence in modern taxa and survivability in the fossil record
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology (TGBI, volume 38)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Molecular Decay of Plant Biopolymers

    • Neal S. Gupta
    Pages 1-16

  3. Distribution of Cutan in Modern Leaves

    • Neal S. Gupta
    Pages 17-41

  4. Organic Preservation of Biopolymers in Fossil Leaves

    • Neal S. Gupta
    Pages 43-74

  5. Migration of Organic Molecules from Sediment to Fossils

    • Neal S. Gupta
    Pages 75-94

  6. Molecular Transformation of Plant Biopolymers in High P-T Conditions

    • Neal S. Gupta
    Pages 95-106

  7. Lipid Incorporation During Experimental Decay of Arthropods

    • Neal S. Gupta
    Pages 107-117

  8. Molecular Preservation of Eurypterids

    • Neal S. Gupta
    Pages 119-134

  9. Transformation of Arthropod Biopolymers in High P-T Conditions

    • Neal S. Gupta
    Pages 135-145

  10. Molecular Preservation in Graptolites

    • Neal S. Gupta
    Pages 147-156

  11. Molecular Transformation of Bacteria at High P-T Conditions

    • Neal S. Gupta
    Pages 157-163

  12. Preservation of Organic Fossils at the Las Hoyas Formation, Spain

    • Neal S. Gupta
    Pages 165-174
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About this book

This book provides an overview, research compendium and an introduction to the science of molecular paleontology, including literature overview for non-geochemists. Analytical methods employed are included as a part of each chapter that underpin this branch of paleontology and indeed geochemistry. The primary usefulness of this volume is for organic geochemists, molecular palaeontologists, and molecular archeologists. Researchers, graduate students and academics interested in astrobiology from a paleontological perspective may also find this to be valuable.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Science and Technology Laboratory for Terrestrial Environments, Bryant University, Smithfield, USA

    Neal S. Gupta

About the author

Neal S, Gupta received a PhD in Organic Geochemistry and Paleontology from the University of Bristol (UK) in 2005. He was a postdoc at Yale University 2005-2009. From 2007-2010 he was a joint postdoc at MIT, and also a NASA Astrobiology Fellow (MIT and Geophysical Lab, Carnegie Institution of Washington). He has worked with Derek Briggs, Roger Summons, Rich Pancost and George Cody for his doctoral and postdoctoral work. He was an Assistant Professor in India for a year before returning to the Lab for Terrestrial Environments at Bryant University in 2011. He has edited Chitin: Formation and Diagenesis (also published by Springer in 2011).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Biopolymers

  • Book Subtitle: A molecular paleontology approach

  • Authors: Neal S. Gupta

  • Series Title: Topics in Geobiology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7936-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7935-8Published: 26 September 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0770-9Published: 22 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7936-5Published: 16 September 2014

  • Series ISSN: 0275-0120

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 174

  • Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Biogeosciences, Geochemistry, Paleontology

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