Taphonomy : Process and Bias through Time (Topics in Geobiology) （2ND）

Allison, Peter A. (EDT)/ Bottjer, David J. (EDT)

Springer（2013/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 600 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789400734036
• DDC分類 560

Full Description

Taphonomic bias is a pervasive feature of the fossil record. A pressing concern, however, is the extent to which taphonomic processes have varied through the ages. It is one thing to work with a biased data set and quite another to work with a bias that has changed with time. This book includes work from both new and established researchers who are using laboratory, field and data-base techniques to characterise and quantify the temporal and spatial variation in taphonomic bias. It may not provide all the answers but it will at least shed light on the right questions.

Contents

1. Taphonomy; 2. Taphonomic overprints on biodiversity; 3. Taphonomy of shelly taxa through time; 4. Taphonomy of shelly taxa through time; 5. Taphonomy of animal organic skeletons though time; 6. Molecular taphonomy of plant organic skeletons; 7. The relationship between continental landscape evolution and the plant-fossil record; 8. Hierarchical control of terrestrial vertebrate taphonomy over space and time; 9. Taphonomy of carbonate microfacies through time; 10. Taphonomy of reefs through time; 11. Silicification through time; 12. Phosphatization through the Phanerozoic; 13. Three-dimensional morphological (CLSM) and chemical (Raman) imagery of cellularly mineralized fossils; 14. Taphonomy in temporally unique settings; 15. Taphonomy in temporally unique settings: the Ediacaran interval; 16. Mass extinctions and changing taphonomic processes.