Overview
- Provides innovative and traditional techniques in stratigraphy
- These techniques contribute to geological and paleobiological researches, for example:
- charting the course and complexities of the evolution of life through time
- understanding how ancient ecosystems developed and operated
- furnishing data pivotal to strategic mineral exploration
Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology (TGBI, volume 23)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Evolution of a Concept
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The Search for Patterns: Ordering the Framework
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The Search for Clues: Analyzing and Sequencing the Record
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About this book
Few, if any, fundamental disciplines in the earth sciences have seen so many dramatic changes and developments as stratigraphy. The discipline has come to be applied progressively, and indispensably, to nearly all branches of the earth sciences, including such endeavors as charting the course and complexities of life evolution through time, understanding how ancient ecosystems developed and operated, and furnishing data pivotal to exploration and exploitation of strategic mineral resources.
This book aims to incorporate major aspects and essential elements underpinning the modern applications and perspectives of stratigraphy. It focuses on traditional and innovative techniques and how these can be utilized in reconstructing the geological history of sedimentary basins and in solving manifold geological problems and phenomena. Each chapter summarizes contributions by leading researchers in the field. It is hoped that this book will provide the reader with key insights into all these aspects and applications.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Applied Stratigraphy
Editors: Eduardo A. M. Koutsoukos
Series Title: Topics in Geobiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2763-X
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2632-4Published: 13 December 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6683-2Published: 16 August 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2763-5Published: 04 August 2006
Series ISSN: 0275-0120
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 488
Topics: Historical Geology, Geology, Biogeosciences, Paleontology, Sedimentology, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences