Christopher J. Cleal, Barry A. Thomas

Introduction to Plant Fossils

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a practical guide for the non-specialist on studying and learning from plant fossils to understand the evolution of vegetation on Earth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 802g
• ISBN-13: 9781108483445
• ISBN-10: 1108483445
• Artikelnr.: 54921389

Autorenporträt

Christopher J. Cleal is Head of Botany at National Museum Wales. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society, London, and the Linnean Society, London, and is a member of the Fossil Plant Committee of the International Association of Plant Taxonomy (IAPT). He has published nine books and over 200 papers in academic journals, dealing with palaeobotany, stratigraphy and geoconservation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Highlights of palaeobotanical study
3. Studying plant fossils
4. Early land plants
5. Lycophytes
6. Sphenophytes
7. Ferns
8. Early gymnosperms
9. Modern gymnosperms
10. Angiosperms
11. The history of land vegetation.