Introduction to Plant Fossils Cleal Christopher J.
Introduction to Plant Fossils Cleal Christopher J. Plant remains can preserve a critical part of history of life on Earth. It shows how various techniques can be used to reveal the secrets of plant…
Specifikacia Introduction to Plant Fossils Cleal Christopher J.
Introduction to Plant Fossils Cleal Christopher J.
Plant remains can preserve a critical part of history of life on Earth. It shows how various techniques can be used to reveal the secrets of plant fossils and how to identify common types, such as compressions and impressions. While telling the fascinating evolutionary story of plants and vegetation across the last 500 million years, this book also crucially offers non-specialists a practical guide to studying, dealing with and interpreting plant fossils.
With extensive illustrations of plant fossils and living plants, the book encourages readers to think of fossils as once-living organisms. Incorporating the concepts of evolutionary floras, this second edition includes revised data on all main plant groups, the latest approaches to naming plant fossils using fossil-taxa and techniques such as tomography. It is written for students on introductory or intermediate courses in