[PDF] Cambrian Ocean World eBook

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 0253011884

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This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first appearance of complex animals with eyes, protective skeletons, antennae, and complex ecologies. Grazing, predation, and multi-tiered ecosystems with animals living in, on, or above the sea floor became common. The cascade of interaction led to an ever-increasing diversification of animal body types. By the end of the period, the ancestors of sponges, corals, jellyfish, worms, mollusks, brachiopods, arthropods, echinoderms, and vertebrates were all in place. The evidence of this Cambrian "explosion" is preserved in rocks all over the world, including North America, where the seemingly strange animals of the period are preserved in exquisite detail in deposits such as the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. Cambrian Ocean World tells the story of what is, for us, the most important period in our planet's long history.

Author : Callum Roberts
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 1101583568

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A Silent Spring for oceans, written by "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" (The New York Times) Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts—one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists—leads readers on a fascinating tour of mankind’s relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on earth to the oceans as we know them today. In the process, Roberts looks at how the taming of the oceans has shaped human civilization and affected marine life. We have always been fish eaters, from the dawn of civilization, but in the last twenty years we have transformed the oceans beyond recognition. Putting our exploitation of the seas into historical context, Roberts offers a devastating account of the impact of modern fishing techniques, pollution, and climate change, and reveals what it would take to steer the right course while there is still time. Like Four Fish and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Ocean of Life takes a long view to tell a story in which each one of us has a role to play.

Author : W. Sean Chamberlin
Publisher : McGraw-Hill College
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780073016542

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'Exploring the World Ocean' presents oceanography as a systems science, aimed at understanding the world ocean as a single, interdependent system of interacting geological, physical, chemical and biological processes. Also emphasized is the idea that ocea

Author : David L. Meyer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 2009-03-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0253013496

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A “superbly written, richly illustrated” guide to the animals who lived 450 million years ago—in the fossil-rich area where Cincinnati, Ohio now stands (Rocks & Minerals). The region around Cincinnati, Ohio, is known throughout the world for the abundant and beautiful fossils found in limestones and shales that were deposited as sediments on the sea floor during the Ordovician Period, about 450 million years ago—some 250 million years before the dinosaurs lived. In Ordovician time, the shallow sea that covered much of what is now the North American continent teemed with marine life. The Cincinnati area has yielded some of the world’s most abundant and best-preserved fossils of invertebrate animals such as trilobites, bryozoans, brachiopods, molluscs, echinoderms, and graptolites. So famous are the Ordovician fossils and rocks of the Cincinnati region that geologists use the term “Cincinnatian” for strata of the same age all over North America. This book synthesizes more than 150 years of research on this fossil treasure-trove, describing and illustrating the fossils, the life habits of the animals represented, their communities, and living relatives, as well as the nature of the rock strata in which they are found and the environmental conditions of the ancient sea. “A fascinating glimpse of a long-extinct ecosystem.” —Choice

Author : AZ Books
Publisher : AZ Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Deep-sea animals
ISBN : 9781618890214

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This exciting series introduces kids to the wonders and dangers of many worlds: underwater, forest, jungle, savanna, and the land of dinosaurs. 3D pictures and realistic sounds bring to life the atmosphere of nature in all its wildness. Informative pull-out cards provide detailed information about each creature.

Author : Robert Riding
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231106139

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The Cambrian radiation was the explosive evolution of marine life that started 550,000,000 years ago. It ranks as one of the most important episodes in Earth history. This key event in the history of life on our planet changed the marine biosphere and its sedimentary environment forever, requiring a complex interplay of wide-ranging biologic and nonbiologic processes. The Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation offers a comprehensive and surprising picture of the Earth at that ancient time. The book contains contributions from thirty-three authors hailing from ten countries and will be of interest to paleontologists, geologists, biologists, and other researchers interested in the global Earth-life system.

Author : Trond H. Torsvik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107105323

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This book provides a complete Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography, using new and detailed full-colour maps, to link surface and deep-Earth processes.

Author : Paul V. Horsman
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :

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Takes a look at the rich variety of ocean life, from the tiniest plankton to the largest animal ever-the blue whale.

Author : Ticktock
Publisher : Ticktock Books, Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,68 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781846968259

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This fun book for 5+ years is crammed with photos and illustrations, and brings you face-to-face with ocean creatures from all around the world. It's packed with facts about where they live,what they eat, and how they grow and survive. Other titles in this series include: Farm Animals, Animal Babies, Mammals, Dinosaurs, Machines, Reptiles & Amphibians & Bugs & Spiders..