Deep Time Analysis
A Coherent View of the History of Life
Authors: McMenamin, Mark A. S.
Free Preview- Provides clarification with regard to proper deployment of analytical techniques in the earth sciences
- The analytical tools presented a have wide application to other fields of knowledge
- Introduces significant advances in our understanding of earth history
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Using a series of case studies, the book demonstrates the power of dynamic analysis as applied to the fossil record. The book considers how we think about certain types of paleontological questions and shows how to answer them. The analytical tools presented here will have wide application to other fields of knowledge; as such the book represents a major contribution to the deployment of modern scientific method as it builds on author's previous book, Dynamic Paleontology. Students and seasoned professionals alike will find this book to be of great utility for refining their approach to their ongoing and future research projects.
- About the authors
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Mark McMenamin's research focuses on the origin of animals and other forms of complex life, the origin of land plants, and the Snowball Earth glaciation. His 2016 book Dynamic Paleontology (Springer) provides a new framework for the analysis and interpretation of ancient life. Mark's students are known for publishing in peer-review journals while undergraduates. In 2008, Mark received (as director of the Keck Geology project to study the rocks of the Boston Basin) a teaching award from Southern Utah University for student project excellence. Mark named the supercontinent Rodinia in The Emergence of Animals (Columbia University Press). His research is featured in the History Channel’s program How the Earth Was Made. His concept of Hypersea: Life on Land was called one of "seven ideas that could change the world" by Discover Magazine.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Seventh Law
Pages 1-14
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Shuram Excursion
Pages 15-59
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Clemente Biota
Pages 61-102
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Crystal Creature
Pages 103-124
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Trace Fossil Geometry
Pages 125-133
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Deep Time Analysis
- Book Subtitle
- A Coherent View of the History of Life
- Authors
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- Mark A. S. McMenamin
- Series Title
- Springer Geology
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-74256-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-74256-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-74255-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-08947-4
- Series ISSN
- 2197-9545
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 288
- Number of Illustrations
- 86 b/w illustrations, 129 illustrations in colour
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