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Marvelous Microfossils
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※上記表示の販売価格は割引適用後の価格です 出版済み 3-5週間でお届けいたします。 Creators, Timekeepers, Architects Author: De Wever, Patrick Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN: 9781421436739 Cover: HARDCOVER Date: 2020年04月 DESCRIPTION Microfossils-the most abundant, ancient, and easily accessible of Earth's fossils-are also the most important. Their ubiquity is such that every person on the planet touches or uses them every single day, and yet few of us even realize they exist. Despite being the sole witnesses of 3 billion years of evolutionary history, these diminutive fungi, plants, and animals are themselves invisible to the eye. In this microscopic bestiary, prominent geologist, paleontologist, and scholar Patrick De Wever lifts the veil on their mysterious world. Marvelous Microfossils lays out the basics of what microfossils are before moving on to the history, tools, and methods of investigating them. The author describes the applications of their study, both practical and sublime. Microfossils, he explains, are indispensable in age-dating and paleoenvironmental reconstruction, which guide enormous investments in the oil, gas, and mining industries. De Wever shares surprising stories of how microfossils made the Chunnel possible and have unmasked perpetrators in jewel heists and murder investigations. He also reveals that microfossils created the stunning white cliffs on the north coast of France, graced the tables of the Medici family, and represent our best hope for discovering life on the exoplanets at the outer edges of our solar system. Describing the many strange and beautiful groups of known microfossils in detail, De Wever combines lyrical prose with hundreds of arresting color images, from delicate nineteenth-century drawings of phytoplankton drafted by Ernst Haeckel, the "father of ecology," to cutting-edge scanning electron microscope photographs of billion-year-old acritarchs. De Wever's ode to the invisible world around us allows readers to peer directly into a minute microcosm with massive implications, even traversing eons to show us how life arose on Earth. Table of Contents Preface Introduction A Marvelous Microscopic World What Is a Microfossil? Why Study Microfossils Part A: The Study of Microfossils Part B: Microfossils through the Geologic Ages Part C: The Diversity of Microfossils Part D: Architects, Builders, and Markers of Time
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