A new edition of the popular title in the Naturetrail series. Clear text, illustrations and photographs explain how rocks, minerals and fossils are actually formed, what they can tell us about the his
Plant remains can preserve a critical part of history of life on Earth. 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. 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. 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. With extensive illustrations of plant fossils and living plants, the book encourages readers to think of fossils as once-living organisms. It is written for students on introductory or intermediate courses in palaeobotany, palaeontology, plant evolutionary biology and plant science, and for amateurs interested in studyin
For professional and amateur palaeontologists alike, Fossils of the Upper Ordovician, edited by David Harper and Alan Owen, is an ideal introduction to identifying the fossils of the Upper Ordovician
A practical introduction to the study of plant fossils. It summarises plant groups occurring as fossils, explains modern research techniques and outlines features for identifying plant fossils, with w
A practical introduction to the study of plant fossils. It summarises plant groups occurring as fossils, explains modern research techniques and outlines features for identifying plant fossils, with w
This book serves as an up-to-date introduction, as well as overview to modern trace fossil research and covers nearly all of the essential aspects of modern ichnology. Divided into three section, Tra
Fossils have been vital to our understanding of the formation of the earth and the origins of life. However, their impact has not been limited to debates about geology and evolution: attempts to expla
What is a fossil?Sometimes it's the imprint of an ancient leaf in a rock. Sometimes it's a woolly mammoth, frozen for thousands of years in the icy ground. Sometimes it's the skeleton of a stegosaurus
