Gregory J. Retallack: Soil Grown Tall | Buch

Cover: 9783030887384 | Soil Grown Tall | The Epic Saga of Life from Earth | Retallack | Buch

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Beschreibung

This book is designed as an easy night's read and introduction to fossil soils and the relatively new disciplines of Paleopedology and Astropedology. It includes line art and color illustrations to visualize the topic for the informed layperson or interested colleagues. It provides comprehensive information on paleosols, which are soils of the past providing a variety of clues to the evolution of life and climate on Earth and deals with topics such as the evolution of grassland ecosystems, mass extinction of the Late Permian and origin of life, all viewed from the perspective of the fossil record of soils. This turns out to be a refreshing new perspective of wide interest.

Über den Autor

Gregory J. Retallack is an emeritus professor at the University of Oregon best known for his research on the fossil record of soils. His efforts at detailed characterization and interpretation of paleosols is documented in more than 300 refereed publications and 12 books. His textbook "Soils of the past" is now in its third edition. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America, and recipient of the Stillwell Medal of the Geological Society of Australia and the Ingerson Award of the Geochemical Society. Three fossil species have been named in his honor: a fern, angiosperm leaf, and mouse deer.

Zusammenfassung

Deciphers the long fossil record of ancient landscapes and ecosystems they supported

Provides a short accessible introduction to new ideas

Copiously illustrated with line and color art

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Rainbow rocks.- Soil as a many splendored thing.- Civilization built from soil.- Humanity from global change.- Grass that changed the world.- Death from the sky.- An occasion for flowers.- Dinosaurs and dirt.- World's greatest mid-life crisis.- Roots of trees.- Mighty millipedes.- Lichens and till- When the rust set in.- Soils in space.- Living soil.- The Proserpina Principle.- Further Reading.- Index.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Fachbereich:	Geologie
Genre:	Geowissenschaften
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	xxviii 275 S. 70 s/w Illustr. 32 farbige Illustr. 275 p. 102 illus. 32 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783030887384
ISBN-10:	3030887383
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Retallack, Gregory J.
Auflage:	1st ed. 2022
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG
Maße:	241 x 160 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Gregory J. Retallack
Erscheinungsdatum:	17.02.2022
Gewicht:	0,623 kg

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