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Abstracts Of Papers To Be Presented At The Meeting Of The North Central Section Of The Geological Society Of America And Associated Societies Macomb Illinois April 26 27 1990
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Book Synopsis Abstracts of papers to be presented at the meeting of the north-central section of the Geological Society of America, and Associated Societies, Macomb, Illinois April 26-27, 1990 by : Geological Society of America. North-Central Section. Meeting (24th : 1990 : Macomb, Ill.)
Download or read book Abstracts of papers to be presented at the meeting of the north-central section of the Geological Society of America, and Associated Societies, Macomb, Illinois April 26-27, 1990 written by Geological Society of America. North-Central Section. Meeting (24th : 1990 : Macomb, Ill.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Guidebook for Geology Field Trips by : Geological Society of America. North-Central Section. Annual Meeting
Download or read book Guidebook for Geology Field Trips written by Geological Society of America. North-Central Section. Annual Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis GSA News & Information by : Geological Society of America
Download or read book GSA News & Information written by Geological Society of America and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Paleobiology, Paleoecology, and Systematics of Solemyidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia:Protobranchia) from the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte, Pennsylvanian of Illinois by : J. Bowman Bailey
Download or read book Paleobiology, Paleoecology, and Systematics of Solemyidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia:Protobranchia) from the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte, Pennsylvanian of Illinois written by J. Bowman Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most abundant bivalve of the Essex biofacies (Mazon Creek fauna, Pennsylvanian of Illinois), misidentified by past authors as the marine pholadomyoid Edmondia de Koninck, 1841, is herein named Mazonomya mazonenis n. gen., n. sp., and assigned to the family Solemyidae, based on: (1) anterior elongation of the shell as deduced from brevidorsal placement of the hinge-axis, preserved traces of the external ligament, and supporting structures; (2) preserved traces of a longidorsal extension of the ligamental outer layer and periostracum; and (3) sedimentary backfill marks left by the large foot near the longiterminus of the shell. The second most abundant Essex solemyid (Solemya radiata of past authors), showing traces of the periostracil frill and external ligament, is emended as Acharax radiata (Meek & Worthen, 1860) n. comb. Other Essex solemyids previously unreported include two probably solemyids left in open nomenclature, and Acharax (Nacrosolemya) trapezoids (Meek, 1874), for which Meek's original, non-Esses specimen is designated as lectotype. Systematic revisions herein challenge open-marine and open-estuary depositional models of the Essex biogacies. Unlike coeval euhaline oxic communities in which solemyids are the Essex bivalve community is dominated by solemyids, a recurrent phenomenon in carbonaceous roof-strata immediately overlying Pennsylvanian coal seams. Extant solemyids are common in shallow wuryhaline waters, forming dense chemoautotrophic populations in organic-rich dysoxic/ anoxic muds. Within the Essex, the prevalence of solemyids along with an admixture of thin-shelled euryhaline bivalves and growth-inhibited stnohaline bivalves is suggestive of a transitional paleoenvironment, such as a drowned coal-swamp or restricted estuary, in which superabundance of organics and nutrient pollution had induced eutrophication. Arguably, a persistent suite of traits (amphidetic ligament, edentulous hing, periostracal frill, mantle fusion, reduced gut, and enlarged gills hosting bacterial chemosymbionts) has characterized the Solemyidae since the Early Ordovician. Whereas the dianostic internal ligament of Solemya Lamarck, 1818, is apparently a post-Paleozic trait, the prevalence of external ligaments among Paleozoic solemyids requires that species previously placed in Solemya be transferred to Acharax Dall, 1908, or other genera. Emended examples herein are: S. [Janeia] primeva Phillips, 1836, sensu Hind (1900) (Carboniferous, United Kingdom) is emended as Acharax primaeva n. comb., a probably senior synonym of S. parallela Beede & Rogers, 1899 (Pensylvanian, Kansas) (non S. parallela Ryckholt, 1853 [1854]); Carydium elongatum Clarke, 1907 (Lower Devonian, new Brunswick) is emended as Dystactella elongata n. comb, Additionally, several European Carboniferous species of "Solemya" (e.g., S. puzosiana de Koninck, 1842, S. saginata Ryckholt, 1853 [1854], S. costellata M'Coy, 1844, and S. excisa de Koninck, 1885) should be reassigned to Acharax.
Book Synopsis Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah by : David D. Gillette
Download or read book Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah written by David D. Gillette and published by Utah Geological Survey. This book was released on 1999 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 52 papers in this vary in content from summaries or state-of-knowledge treatments, to detailed contributions that describe new species. Although the distinction is subtle, the title (Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah) indicates the science of paleontology in the state of Utah, rather than the even more ambitious intent if it were given the title “Vertebrate Paleontology of Utah” which would promise an encyclopedic treatment of the subject. The science of vertebrate paleontology in Utah is robust and intense. It has grown prodigiously in the past decade, and promises to continue to grow indefinitely. This research benefits everyone in the state, through Utah’s muse ums and educational institutions, which are the direct beneficiaries.
Book Synopsis Postglacial Stratigraphy and Morphology of Coastal Connecticut by : Geological Society of America
Download or read book Postglacial Stratigraphy and Morphology of Coastal Connecticut written by Geological Society of America and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture by : The Getty Conservation Institute
Download or read book 6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture written by The Getty Conservation Institute and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1991-02-28 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 14-19, 1990, the 6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture was held in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Sponsored by the GCI, the Museum of New Mexico State Monuments, ICCROM, CRATerre-EAG, and the National Park Service, under the aegis of US/ICOMOS, the event was organized to promote the exchange of ideas, techniques, and research findings on the conservation of earthen architecture. Presentations at the conference covered a diversity of subjects, including the historic traditions of earthen architecture, conservation and restoration, site preservation, studies in consolidation and seismic mitigation, and examinations of moisture problems, clay chemistry, and microstructures. In discussions that focused on the future, the application of modern technologies and materials to site conservation was urged, as was using scientific knowledge of existing structures in the creation of new, low-cost, earthen architecture housing.
Book Synopsis The Physical Geography and Geology of the Driftless Area by : Eric C. Carson
Download or read book The Physical Geography and Geology of the Driftless Area written by Eric C. Carson and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Assembling California by : John McPhee
Download or read book Assembling California written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.
Download or read book In Suspect Terrain written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana's drifted diamonds and gold, John McPhee's In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the three others-- a biography; a set piece about a fragment of Appalachian landscape in illuminating counterpoint to the human history there; a modern collision of ideas about the origins of the mountain range; and, in contrast, a century-old collision of ideas about the existence of the Ice Age. The central figure is Anita Harris, an internationally celebrated geologist who went into her profession to get out of a Brooklyn ghetto. The unifying theme is plate tectonics-- here concentrating on the acceptance that all aspects of the theory do not universally enjoy. As such, In Suspect Terrain is a report from the rough spots at the front edge of a science. In Suspect Terrain is the second book in a series on geology and geologists, presenting a cross section of North America along the fortieth parallel, and gathered under the overall title Annals of the Former World. The other books in the series are Basin and Range, Rising from the Plains, and Assembling California.
Book Synopsis Landscapes and Societies by : I. Peter Martini
Download or read book Landscapes and Societies written by I. Peter Martini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains case histories intended to show how societies and landscapes interact. The range of interest stretches from the small groups of the earliest Neolithic, through Bronze and Iron Age civilizations, to modern nation states. The coexistence is, of its very nature reciprocal, resulting in changes in both society and landscape. In some instances the adaptations may be judged successful in terms of human needs, but failure is common and even the successful cases are ephemeral when judged in the light of history. Comparisons and contrasts between the various cases can be made at various scales from global through inter-regional, to regional and smaller scales. At the global scale, all societies deal with major problems of climate change, sea-level rise, and with ubiquitous problems such as soil erosion and landscape degradation. Inter-regional differences bring out significant detail with one region suffering from drought when another suffers from widespread flooding. For example, desertification in North Africa and the Near East contrasts with the temperate countries of southern Europe where the landscape-effects of deforestation are more obvious. And China and Japan offer an interesting comparison from the standpoint of geological hazards to society - large, unpredictable and massively erosive rivers in the former case, volcanoes and accompanying earthquakes in the latter. Within the North African region localized climatic changes led to abandonment of some desertified areas with successful adjustments in others, with the ultimate evolution into the formative civilization of Egypt, the "Gift of the Nile". At a smaller scale it is instructive to compare the city-states of the Medieval and early Renaissance times that developed in the watershed of a single river, the Arno in Tuscany, and how Pisa, Siena and Florence developed and reached their golden periods at different times depending on their location with regard to proximity to the sea, to the main trunk of the river, or in the adjacent hills. Also noteworthy is the role of technology in opening up opportunities for a society. Consider the Netherlands and how its history has been formed by the technical problem of a populous society dealing with too much water, as an inexorably rising sea threatens their landscape; or the case of communities in Colorado trying to deal with too little water for farmers and domestic users, by bringing their supply over a mountain chain. These and others cases included in the book, provide evidence of the successes, near misses and outright failures that mark our ongoing relationship with landscape throughout the history of Homo sapiens. The hope is that compilations such as this will lead to a better understanding of the issue and provide us with knowledge valuable in planning a sustainable modus vivendi between humanity and landscape for as long as possible. Audience: The book will interest geomorphologists, geologists, geographers, archaeologists, anthropologists, ecologists, environmentalists, historians and others in the academic world. Practically, planners and managers interested in landscape/environmental conditions will find interest in these pages, and more generally the increasingly large body of opinion in the general public, with concerns about Planet Earth, will find much to inform their opinions. Extra material: The color plate section is available at http://extras.springer.com
Book Synopsis Rising from the Plains by : John McPhee
Download or read book Rising from the Plains written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John McPhee continues his Annals of the Former World series about the geology of North America along the fortieth parallel with Rising from the Plains. This third volume presents another exciting geological excursion with an engaging account of life—past and present—in the high plains of Wyoming. Sometimes it is said of geologists that they reflect in their professional styles the sort of country in which they grew up. Nowhere could that be more true than in the life of a geologist born in the center of Wyoming and raised on an isolated ranch. This is the story of that ranch, soon after the turn of the twentieth century, and of David Love, the geologist who grew up there, at home with the composition of the high country in the way that someone growing up in a coastal harbor would be at home with the vagaries of the sea.
Book Synopsis Permian-Triassic Pangean Basins and Foldbelts Along the Panthalassan Margin of Gondwanaland by : J. J. Veevers
Download or read book Permian-Triassic Pangean Basins and Foldbelts Along the Panthalassan Margin of Gondwanaland written by J. J. Veevers and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume summarizes the current state of knowledge of each of the main sectors of the basin. After reconstructing Permian-Triassic Gondwanaland, authors from South America, South Africa, Antarctica, and Australia illustrate the relevant geology of each sector in maps and time-space diagrams under
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Minor Planet Names by : Lutz D. Schmadel
Download or read book Dictionary of Minor Planet Names written by Lutz D. Schmadel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history and rapid development of minor planet dis In addition to citing the bibliographic source of the nam coveries constitute a fascinating story and one with a ing, we also provide the source of numbering. A spe rather breathtaking evolution. By October 2005, the cial concordance list will enable the evaluation of the total of numbered planets exceeded the remarkable cor respective publication dates. The complete work is, nerstone of 100,000 objects and only three years later of course, a thoroughly revised and considerably en in November 2008 we are even faced with minor planet larged data collection and every e?ort has been made ( ) 200000 . This dramatic evolution must be compared to check and correct each single piece of information ( ) with the huge time span of two centuries 1801–2000 again. For even more detailed information on the dis that was necessary to detect and to re?ne the orbits of covery circumstances of numbered but unnamed plan only the ?rst 20,000 minor planets. Nowadays, we need ets, the reader is referred to the extensive data ?les even less than 13 months for the same quantity! At the compiled by the Minor Planet Center. end of 2005, we had achieved a total of 12,804 named ( According to a resolution of IAU Division III 2000, minor planets a fraction of less than 11 per cent of ) Manchester IAU General Assembly DMPN attained all numbered minor planets.
Book Synopsis Chaos and Fractals: The Mathematics Behind the Computer Graphics by : Robert L. Devaney
Download or read book Chaos and Fractals: The Mathematics Behind the Computer Graphics written by Robert L. Devaney and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terms chaos and fractals have received widespread attention in recent years. The alluring computer graphics images associated with these terms have heightened interest among scientists in these ideas. This volume contains the introductory survey lectures delivered in the American Mathematical Society Short Course, Chaos and Fractals: The Mathematics Behind the Computer Graphics, on August 6-7, 1988, given in conjunction with the AMS Centennial Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. In his overview, Robert L. Devaney introduces such key topics as hyperbolicity, the period doubling route to chaos, chaotic dynamics, symbolic dynamics and the horseshoe, and the appearance of fractals as the chaotic set for a dynamical system. Linda Keen and Bodil Branner discuss the Mandelbrot set and Julia sets associated to the complex quadratic family z -> z2 + c. Kathleen T. Alligood, James A. Yorke, and Philip J. Holmes discuss some of these topics in higher dimensional settings, including the Smale horseshoe and strange attractors. Jenny Harrison and Michael F. Barnsley give an overview of fractal geometry and its applications. -- from dust jacket.
Book Synopsis Soil and Culture by : Edward R. Landa
Download or read book Soil and Culture written by Edward R. Landa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOIL: beneath our feet / food and fiber / ashes to ashes, dust to dust / dirt!Soil has been called the final frontier of environmental research. The critical role of soil in biogeochemical processes is tied to its properties and place—porous, structured, and spatially variable, it serves as a conduit, buffer, and transformer of water, solutes and gases. Yet what is complex, life-giving, and sacred to some, is ordinary, even ugly, to others. This is the enigma that is soil. Soil and Culture explores the perception of soil in ancient, traditional, and modern societies. It looks at the visual arts (painting, textiles, sculpture, architecture, film, comics and stamps), prose & poetry, religion, philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, wine production, health & diet, and disease & warfare. Soil and Culture explores high culture and popular culture—from the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch to the films of Steve McQueen. It looks at ancient societies and contemporary artists. Contributors from a variety of disciplines delve into the mind of Carl Jung and the bellies of soil eaters, and explore Chinese paintings, African mud cloths, Mayan rituals, Japanese films, French comic strips, and Russian poetry.
