UID:
almafu_9960119518202883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 544 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-52487-0
Content:
Microscopic organic-walled fossils are found in most sedimentary rocks. The organic particles - spores, pollens and other land and marine derived microfossils, representing animals, plants, fungi and protists - can be extracted and used to date the rock, reveal details of the original sedimentary environment and provide information on the climate of the time. The mix within a sediment of whole organic particles - palynomorphs - and organic fragments - palynodebris - form palynofacies. This book presents research work on the sedimentation of components of palynofacies and details their importance for sequence stratigraphy and the interpretation of ancient biologic and geologic environments. A comprehensive introduction to the subject is presented in the first chapter. Palynosedimentation in modern environments, the reconstruction of terrestrial vegetation and the application of the data to sequence stratigraphy are then considered. Later chapters detail various quantitative methods and their specific applications in the subject. This is a valuable reference work for palynologists and sedimentologists and also for paleobiologists, and for professionals working in the hydrocarbons industries.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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1. Sedimentation of palynomorphs and palynodebris: an introduction / Alfred Traverse -- 2. The sorting of spores and pollen by water: experimental and field evidence / Phillip L. Holmes -- 3. Transport and deposition of pollen in an estuary: signature of the landscape / Grace S. Brush and Lucien M. Brush -- 4. Pollen preservation in alkaline soils of the American Southwest / Vaughn M. Bryant, Jr., Richard G. Holloway, John G. Jones and David L. Carlson -- 5. Wind and water transport and sedimentation of miospores along two rivers subject to major floods and entering the Mediterranean Sea at Calvi (Corsica, France) / Maurice Streel and Claire Richelot -- 6. Sedimentation of land-derived palynomorphs in the Trinity-Galveston Bay area, Texas / Alfred Traverse -- 7. The genesis and sedimentation of phytoclasts with examples from coastal environments / Robert A. Gastaldo -- 8. Palynofacies of some recent marine sediments: the role of transportation / Claude Caratini.
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9. Maceral palynofacies of the Louisiana deltaic plain in terms of organic constituents and hydrocarbon potential / George F. Hart -- 10. Organic sedimentation in a carbonate region / Jason D. Darby and George F. Hart -- 11. An approach to a standard terminology for palynodebris / Michael C. Boulter -- 12. Relationships of palynofacies to coal-depositional environments in the upper Paleocene of the Gulf Coast Basin, Texas, and the Powder River Basin, Montana and Wyoming / Douglas J. Nichols and David T. Pocknall -- 13. Quaternary terrestrial sediments and spatial scale: the limits to interpretation / Richard Bradshaw -- 14. Pollen and spores in Quaternary lake sediments as sensors of vegetation composition: theoretical models and empirical evidence / Stephen T. Jackson -- 15. Paleoecological interpretation of the Trail Ridge sequence, and related deposits in Georgia and Florida, based on pollen sedimentation and clastic sedimentology / Fredrick J. Rich and Fredric L. Pirkle.
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16. Palynology of sedimentary cycles / Daniel Habib, Yoram Eshet and Robert Van Pelt -- 17. Particulate organic matter, maceral facies models, and applications to sequence stratigraphy / George F. Hart, Mark A. Pasley and William A. Gregory -- 18. Association of palynomorphs and palynodebris with depositional environments: quantitative approaches / Warren L. Kovach and David J. Batten -- 19. A quantitative approach to Triassic palynology: the Lettenkeuper of the Germanic Basin as an example / W.A. Brugman, P.F. Van Bergen and J.H.F. Kerp -- 20. Palynomorph concentration in studies of Paleogene nonmarine depositional environments of Wyoming / Martin B. Farley -- 21. Multivariate analyses of palynomorph data as a key to depositional environments of Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene coal-bearing rocks of the western United States / R. Farley Fleming and Douglas J. Nichols.
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22. Relationships between depositional environments and changes in palynofloras across the K/T boundary interval / Arthur R. Sweet -- 23. Sedimentation of palynomorphs in rocks of pre-Devonian age / Paul K. Strother -- Modern pollen transport and sedimentation: an annotated bibliography / Martin B. Farley.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-67550-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-38436-2
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511524875
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