Jain Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology

Microfossils
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-81-322-3962-8
Verlag: Springer India
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 323 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Springer Geology

This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and brief explanatory texts. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction, and goes on to describe the respective organism’s morphology in detail through numerous illustrations. This is followed by a brief note on its classification, and concludes with illustrated examples of stratigraphically important organisms through time with their major distinguishing characteristics. Featuring over 2500 clearly labelled, hand-drawn and classroom-friendly illustrations, the book offers a fundamental resource for budding palaeontologists, petroleum geologists and palaeobiologists.

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jain, Sreepat

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chitinozoa.- Acritarchs.- Pollen and Spores.- Dinoflagellates.- Conodonts.- Radiolarians.- Marine Diatoms.- Ostracods.- Benthic Foraminifera.- Calcareous Nannofossils.- Calpionellids.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Sreepat Jain is a Professor at the Department of Applied Geology, Adama Science and Technology University, Adama, Ethiopia. With over two decades of teaching and research experience, Prof. Jain holds two doctorates, one from India and the other from the United States. Prof. Jain has been awarded the “TA Excellence in Teaching” for meritorious teaching in the United States and has also received the prestigious “Prof. S. K. Singh Memorial Gold Medal” for best research paper from the Palaeontological Society of India (India). He has published several research articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals and has authored three books, two of which, Fundamental of Physical Geology (Springer) and Fundamental of Invertebrate Palaeontology: Macrofossils (Springer)  are recommended for undergraduate Earth Science courses at several American universities. Both these Springer books have also received excellent international reviews. Prof. Jain also serves a reviewer for several international geoscience journals.