Call number:
AWI G5-90-0219
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: Preface. - Contributors. - 1. Depositional Setting of Late Carboniferous to Triassic Biota in the Transantarctic Basin / James W. Collinson. - 2. Gondwanan Paleogeography and Paleoclimatology / Judith Totman Parrish. - 3. Reconstructing High-Latitude Cretaceous Vegetation and Climate: Arctic and Antarctic Compared / Robert A. Spicer. - 4. The South Polar Forest Ecosystem / Geoffrey T. Creber. - 5. Triassic Terrestrial Vertebrate Faunas of Antarctica / William R. Hammer. - 6. Proterozoic and Paleozoic Palynology of Antarctica: A Review / Geoffrey Playford. - 7. Cretaceous and Tertiary Vegetation of Antarctica: A Palynological Perspective / Elizabeth M. Truswell. - 8. Silurian-Devonian Paleobotany: Problems, Progress, and Potential / Dianne Edwards. - 9. Plant Distribution in Gondwana During the Late Paleozoic / Sergio Archangelsky. - 10. Gondwana Floras of India and Antarctica: A Survey and Appraisal / M. N. Bose, Edith L. Taylor, and Thomas N. Taylor. - 11. Structurally Preserved Permian and Triassic Floras from Antarctica / Edith L. Taylor and Thomas N. Taylor. - 12. Permineralized Glossopteris and Dicroidium from Antarctica / Kathleen B. Pigg and Thomas N. Taylor. - 13. Comments on the Role of Cycadophytes in Antarctic Fossil Floras / T. Delevoryas. - 14. Antarctic and Gondwana Conifers / Ruth A. Stockey . - 15. Cretaceous Paleobotany and Its Bearing on the Biogeography of Austral Angiosperms / Andrew N. Drinnan and Peter R. Crane. - Bibliography of Antarctic Paleobotany and Palynology / Edith L. Taylor and Thomas N. Taylor. - Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
In contrast to the environment in Antarctica today, the continent at one time possesed a favorable climate that supported a diverse biota. As a result, Antarctic fossils are a major source of information on the evolution and biogeography of life dating back to the Devonian, as well as on physical parameters relating to continental drift and plate tectonics. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of paleobiology, principally paleobotany and palynology, in Antarctica, and examines the interrelationships of Antarctic floras to those of other Gondwana continents. The vegetational history and the physical and biological factors influencing the distribution of major plant groups such as cycads, conifers, and angiosperms through space and time are discussed within the framework of geological history, especially the tectonic and paleogeographic history of the region. An extensive annotated bibliography rounds off the presentation. Antarctic paleobiology will be of great interest to students and researchers from a range of biological and geological disciplines involved in the historical analysis of plant distribution.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
X, 261 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:
0387970061
Branch Library:
AWI Library
