Hands-On Palaeontology : A Practical Manual

• Autore: Donovan Stephen K
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : , : Dunedin Academic Press, , 2021; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 pages)
• Disciplina: 560.1
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- Foreword (by Professor David A.T. Harper, Durham University) -- Introduction -- Getting started -- Chapter 1 How to collect -- Chapter 2 Where to collect -- Chapter 3 What to collect -- Chapter 4 The field notebook -- Chapter 5 Measuring sections (and why) -- Chapter 6 The Law of Superposition -- Chapter 7 Fossiliferous sedimentary rocks: Siliciclastics -- Chapter 8 Fossiliferous sedimentary rocks: Limestones, flints, cherts and coals -- Chapter 9 Reworked fossils -- Chapter 10 Fossils as way-up structures -- Chapter 11 Fossils as current indicators -- Chapter 12 Your palaeontological library -- Chapter 13 Fossils in caves -- Chapter 14 Beachcombing -- Chapter 15 Common sense in the field -- Chapter 16 Collecting with a camera -- Chapter 17 Buying specimens -- Some theoretical aspects -- Chapter 18 Palaeoecology 1: The organism -- Chapter 19 Palaeoecology 2: Organism meets organism -- Chapter 20 Palaeoecology 3: Getting more information from the bed -- Chapter 21 Preservation 1: Fossilization -- Chapter 22 Preservation 2: Death -- Chapter 23 Preservation 3: Disarticulation, transport and residence -- Chapter 24 Preservation 4: Burial and diagenesis -- Chapter 25 Trace fossils -- Working on your collection at home -- Chapter 26 Storage -- Chapter 27 Labelling -- Chapter 28 Photography at home -- Chapter 29 Drawing -- Chapter 30 Specializing in your favourite fossil group -- Chapter 31 Writing descriptions -- Chapter 32 Casting from natural moulds -- Chapter 33 Problems with preservation -- The wider field: getting involved -- Chapter 34 Collaboration -- Chapter 35 Scientific societies -- Chapter 36 Conferences -- Chapter 37 Journals and magazines -- Chapter 38 Offprints, PDFs and filing -- Chapter 39 Visiting museums -- Chapter 40 Ideas for further involvement. ; Chapter 41 Publishing I: Persuading you to get involved -- Chapter 42 Publishing II: The hard work of self-editing -- Chapter 43 Publishing III: How to publish a new species -- Fossils in many fields -- Chapter 44 The field guide -- Chapter 45 Field trip: Den Haag, the Netherlands -- Chapter 46 Field trip: The Piltdown Trail -- Chapter 47 Field trip: Overstrand to Cromer, Norfolk -- Chapter 48 Field trip: Cleveleys, Lancashire -- Chapter 49 Field trip: Queen Victoria's bathing beach, Isle of Wight -- Chapter 50 Field trip: Salthill Quarry, Clitheroe -- Chapter 51 Field trip: Hurdlow, Derbyshire -- Chapter 52 Field trip: Antigua -- Chapter 53 Field trip: Aktuo-Paläontologie of Southport Beach, Merseyside -- Glossary -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: A comprehensible reference manual for palaeontologists on many aspects of their science. Topics discussed range from the esoteric, such as palaeoecology and preservation, to the practical, such as the storing of specimens and photography.
• Altri titoli varianti: Hands-On Palaeontology
• Titolo autorizzato: Hands-On Palaeontology
• ISBN: 1-78046-664-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910794551303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II