Exempel på palaeontology

• Amateurs have traditionally played an important role in palaeontology.

• Palaeontology works by comparing past and present organisms with each other.

• He teaches palaeontology at the university of Ferrara.

• I looked in vain for the terms theropod, cynodont and perissodactyl and yet some 10% of the definitions are apparently devoted to palaeontology.

• Investigations of regional tectonics included work on structural geology, stratigraphy and palaeontology, and collecting samples for palaeomagnetic and isotope age studies.

• It is highly recommended to those interested in palaeontology at any level.

• The first two chapters set the scene whilst the third introduces something of the palaeontology.

• Additionally, there has been a lot of interest in the vertebrate palaeontology with attempts to integrate body and trace fossils.

• It is a multi-disciplinary science that encompasses the disciplines of chemistry, biology, palaeontology, geology, atmospheric physics, planetary physics and stellar physics.

• Against this, source rock evaluation and oil-oil/oil-source rock correlation are particularly well done, as is the application of palaeontology.

• Palaeontology journals these days publish a regular stream of papers which deal with disintegration of this or that taxon.

• Overall this is an interesting book about the history of palaeontology and the natural sciences in general.

• Each site entry follows a similar pattern under the headings: introduction, description, sedimentology, palaeontology (if appropriate), interpretation and conclusions.

• The book includes a great deal of geology with an account of the stratigraphy, palaeontology, structural geology, and volcanology of the island.

• This volume, therefore, is one that will be widely consulted, and will be an essential addition to any library where palaeontology is an active subject.

• A significant asset as a first-year introductory text is its coverage of all palaeontology from microfossils to hominids and plants.

• The emphasis of the contributions is mostly on bedrock geology (stratigraphy, palaeontology, structures, metamorphism and petrology) although two studies of geomorphology are included.

• The palaeontology, with more than 30 entries for animal fossil groups including bryozoans, has an overly animal bias.