Download or read book Scleractinian Corals of the Cretaceous written by Rosemarie C. Baron-Szabo and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fossil Scleractinian Corals from James Ross Basin Antarctica written by Filkorn and published by American Geophysical Union. This book was released on 1994 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scleractinian Corals from the Cretaceous of the Alps and Northern Dinarides with Remarks on Related Taxa written by Rosemarie C. Baron-Szabo and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literaturverz. S. 269 - 282

Download or read book Scleractinian Corals from the Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary of N gssuaq West Greenaland written by Søren Floris and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Corals in Space and Time written by John Edward Norwood Veron and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As concerns about the change in global climate and the loss of biodiversity have mounted, attention has focused on the depletion of the ozone layer and the destruction of tropical rainforests. But recently scientists have identified another seriously endangered ecosystem: coral reefs. In Corals in Space and Time, J.E.N. Veron provides a richly detailed study of corals that will inform investigations of these fragile ecosystems. Drawing on twenty-five years of research, Veron brings together extensive field observations about the taxonomy, biogeography, paleontology, and biology of corals. After introducing coral taxonomy and biogeography, as well as relevant aspects of coral biology for the non-specialist, he provides an interpretation of the fossil record and paleoclimates, an analysis of modern coral distribution, and a discussion of the evolutionary nature and origins of coral species. Revealing a sharp conflict between empirical observations about the geographical variation within species, Veron introduces a non-Darwinian theory of coral evolution. He proposes that the evolution of coral species is driven not primarily by natural selection, but by constantly shifting patterns of ocean circulation, which produce changing variations of genetic connectivity. This mechanism of speciation and hybridization has far-reaching consequences for the study of all types of corals and potentially many other groups of organisms as well.

Download or read book Scleractinian Corals from the Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary of N gssuaq West Greenland written by Søren Floris and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scleractinian corals from the upper cretaceous and lower tertiary of N gssuaq West Greenland written by Søren Floris and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scleractinian Corals from the Cretaceous of the Alps and N Dinarides written by Rosemarie C. Baron-Szabo and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Eocene and Lower Oligocene Coral Faunas of the United States with Descriptions of a Few Doubtfully Cretaceous Species written by T. Wayland Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cretaceous Corals from the Huetamo Region Michoac n and Guerrero Southwestern Mexico written by Harry F. Filkorn and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cretaceous corals (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) of the Huetamo region of southwestern Mexico, an area in the tectonically problematic Guerrero terrane, are investigated for the first time. This study provides a detailed, modern taxonomic foundation for future work on Mexican Cretaceous corals. Thirty-nine species are described and illustrated: 20 from the lower Aptian Cumburindio Formation, one from lower Aptian strata of the San Lucas Formation, and 18 from the upper Albian-lower Cenomanian upper member of the Mal Paso Formation. At the species level, the coral faunas from these formations are entirely different from each other. Of the 21 species from the lower Aptian, three are described as new: Saltocyathus cumburindioensis n. sp., Actinaraea michoacanensis n. sp, and Thamnarea hornosensis n. sp. About 50 percent of the lower Aptian coral species have been reported previously from pre-Albian strata in the European region. This faunal similarity is the strongest geographic affinity recognized in this study. Of the 18 coral species from the upper Albian-lower Cenomanian, 11 are described as new, whereas another one of these species recently has been described and designated as the type species of a newly recognized dendrophylliid genus, Blastozopsammia guerreroterion Filkorn and Pantoja-Alor, 2004. The 11 coral species from the upper Albian-lower Cenomanian herein described as new are: Actinastrea chumbitaroensis n. sp., Preverastraea coatlicuae n. sp., Preverastraea tocae n. sp., Latiphyllia mexicana n. sp., Thecosmilia guerreroensis n. sp., Mycetophyllopsis azteca n. sp., Orbignygyra? incognita n. sp., Thalamocaeniopsis mexicanensis n. sp., Thamnasteria tonantzinae n. sp., Paracycloseris effrenatus n. sp., and Ovalastrea malpaso n. sp. Analogies with extant corals indicate that most of the coral species from the Cretaceous formations of southwestern Mexico were zooxanthellate, hermatypic, reef-building species. Associations of scleractinian corals and rudist bivalves were observed at three localities, two in the Cumburindio Formation and one in the Mal Paso Formation. The two occurrences in the Cumburindio Formation are: an association of a large species of ramose, microsolenid coral, Thamnarea hornosensis n. sp., preserved in situ along with valves of the rudists Praecaprina and Caprina at the exposures in the Arroyo Los Hornos, near Turitzio; and a diverse assemblage of reef corals that conformably overlies a bed primarily composed of valves of the rudist Amphitriscoelus near the top of the stratigraphic section at the Loma de San Juan, Turitzio, Michoacán. The coral and rudist association in the Mal Paso Formation involves a diverse assemblage of reef corals and the rudists Radiolites and Mexicaprina within an interval near the top of the stratigraphic section that is exposed at a locality in the state of Guerrero, just north of Chumbítaro, Michoacán. None of these specific kinds of coral and rudist associations has been recognized previously at any other localities.

Download or read book Revision of the Suborders Families and Genera of the Scleractinia written by Thomas Wayland Vaughan and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1943 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Eocene and Lower Oligocene Coral Faunas of the United States written by T. Wayland Vaughan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Eocene and Lower Oligocene Coral Faunas of the United States: With Descriptions of a Few Doubtfully Cretaceous Species In the winter of 1892, while a student at Harvard University, I began a study of the Eocene corals of the United States, and have continued it, with considerable interruption, during six years. The study Of corals presents peculiar difficulties. The classification depends to a large extent upon minute and Obscure structures that are fre quently destroyed in fossil specimens; and the system of classification, as so many Of the later students of these organisms have pointed out, is thor oughly unsatisfactory, but as yet no good system which can replace the old one has been proposed, although recent investigators have accumulated much valuable data that will probably serve as the foundation fora better and more natural system in the near future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Eocene And Lower Oligocene Coral Faunas Of The United States With Descriptions Of A Few Doubtfully Cretaceous Species written by T Wayland Vaughan and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Quaternary Coral Reef Systems written by Lucien F. Montaggioni and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent coral reefs (1.8 million to a few centuries old) gained since the eighties, and introduces geologists, oceanographers and environmentalists to sedimentological and paleoecological studies of an ecosystem encompassing some of the world's richest biodiversity. Scleractinian reefs first appeared about 300 million years ago. Today coral reef systems provide some of the most sensitive gauges of environmental change, expressing the complex interplay of chemical, physical, geological and biological factors. The topics covered will include the evolutionary history of reef systems and some of the main reef builders since the Cenozoic, the effects of biological and environmental forces on the zonation of reef systems and the distribution of reef organisms and on reef community dynamics through time, changes in the geometry, anatomy and stratigraphy of reef bodies and systems in relation to changes in sea level and tectonics, the distribution patterns of sedimentary (framework or detrital) facies in relation to those of biological communities, the modes and rates of reef accretion (progradation, aggradation versus backstepping; coral growth versus reef growth), the hydrodynamic forces controlling water circulation through reef structures and their relationship to early diagenetic processes, the major diagenetic processes affecting reef bodies through time (replacement and diddolution, dolomitization, phosphatogenesis), and the record of climate change by both individual coral colonies and reef systems over the Quaternary. * state-of-the-art knowledge from Recent corals reefs* introduction to sedimentological and paleoecological studies of an ecosystems encompassing some of the world's richest biodiversity.* authors are internationally regarded authorities on the subject* trustworthy information