Life in stone : a natural history of British Columbia's fossils / / edited by Rolf Ludvigsen

• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, BC, : UBC Press, c1996
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 560/.9711
• Soggetto topico: Fossils - British Columbia; Paleontology - British Columbia
• Altri autori: LudvigsenRolf
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Deep Time in the Cordillera -- Fossils and Museums: Windows into Ancient Worlds -- The Origin and Evolution of Canada's Western Mountains -- Lower Cambrian Trilobites: Most Ancient Mariners -- The Trilobite Beds of Mount Stephen, Yoho National Park -- The Burgess Shale: A Spectacular Cambrian Bestiary -- The Microscopic World of Conodonts -- Mesozoic Radiolarians of Haida Gwaii -- Fishes of the Triassic: Trawling off Pangaea -- Ammonoids and Bivalves: Triassic Life at Sea -- Ammonoids: Itinerants of the Jurassic -- On the Trail of Cretaceous Dinosaurs -- Ancient Saurians: Cretaceous Reptiles of Vancouver Island -- Mollusks: Exotic Shells from Cretaceous Seas -- Plant Life during the Great Cretaceous Transformation -- Paleogene Mammals on Land and at Sea -- Fishes from Eocene Lakes of the Interior -- Insects near Eocene Lakes of the Interior -- Flowering Plants in and around Eocene Lakes of the Interior -- Eocene Conifers of the Interior -- Quaternary Animals: Vertebrates of the Ice Age -- Late Pleistocene Salmon of Kamloops Lake -- Quaternary Plants: Glimpses of Past Climates and Landscapes -- Epilogue: The Cordillera through the Mists of Time -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Life in Stone is the first book to focus on British Columbia's fossils. Each of its chapters is written by a specialist for a general audience, and each is devoted to a separate fossil group that is particularly well represented in the province. Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, Life in Stone will provide fascinating reading for anyone interested in learning more about the animals and plants that inhabited British Columbia during prehistoric times.
• Titolo autorizzato: Life in stone
• ISBN: 1-283-13181-1; 9786613131812; 0-7748-5428-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824671503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II