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La Ciencia de los Dinosaurios en 100 preguntas (100 Preguntas esenciales)
By Jaime Mora Cuadrado. 2017
Las claves científicas del fascinante mundo de la Paleontología de los dinosaurios. Su origen y descubrimiento, su evolución, extinción y…
el mundo en que vivían. Un recorrido exhaustivo por los interrogantes y temas más controvertidos, con rigor y amenidad teniendo en cuenta los descubrimientos y estudios científicos más recientes. ¿Qué hizo que los dinosaurios fuesen los amos de la tierra?, ¿Cuál es el eslabón perdido entre reptiles y aves?, ¿Pudo vivir algún dinosaurio en la Antártida?, ¿Hubo un invierno nuclear hace 65 millones de años?, ¿Por qué sobrevivieron los cocodrilos y no los dinosaurios a la extinción?, ¿Así que ahora hay que imaginar al terrible Tiranosaurio... con plumas?, ¿Cómo una especie de un metro se transforma en otra de cuarenta metros?, ¿Podemos crear un dinosaurio a partir de un pollo?, ¿Siguen entre nosotros?Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
By Lisa Randall. 2015
Bestselling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven's Door and one of today's most influential and highly cited theo-retical…
physicists, Professor Lisa Randall once again effortlessly delivers fascinating science to the general reader. Weaving together the cosmos' his-tory and our own in an expanding intellectual adventure story, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs takes us from the mysteries of dark matter and our cosmic environment to the conditions for life on Earth.Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a cata-clysm that killed off the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. What was its origin? Randall proposes it was a comet that was dislodged from its orbit as the Solar System passed through a disk of dark matter that is embedded in the plane of the Milky Way. Her research challenges the usual assumptions about the simple nature of dark matter and demonstrates how scientists formulate and establish new ideas. In a sense, it might have been dark matter that killed the dinosaurs. With her unique and wide-ranging perspective, Randall connects dark matter to the history of the world in the broadest terms. Bringing in pop culture and social and political viewpoints, she shares with us the latest findings--established and speculative--regarding dark matter, the cosmos, the galaxy, asteroids, comets, and impacts, as well as life's development and extinctions. Randall makes clear how connected the planet is to the makeup of the Universe, but also how fragile our place in the Universe, which evolved over billions of years, might be.In this brilliant and fresh exploration of our cosmic environment, Professor Randall explains the underlying science of our world in the breathtaking tale of a Universe in which the small and the large, the visible and the hidden are intimately related. Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs illuminates the deep relationships that are critical to our world as well as the astonishing beauty of the structures and connections that surround us. It's impossible to read this book and look at either Earth or sky again in the same way.The Mjølnir Impact Event and its Consequences: Geology and Geophysics of a Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous Marine Impact Event (Impact Studies)
By Filippos Tsikalas, Henning Dypvik, Morten Smelror. 2011
The Mjølnir impact structure was recognized in 1993 and included in the Earth Impact Database in 1996, based on the…
discoveries of unequivocal meteorite impact indicators such as shocked quartz, Ir-enrichments, possible glass remnants, fragments of nickel-rich iron oxides, in addition to the convincing complex crater shape of the structure. This book presents the geological and geophysical history of the Barents Sea region along with the discovery of the Mjølnir impact crater. We place the Mjølnir event into the geological framework of the region and present elaborative numerical models of its formation and associated tsunami generation. The book represents an update and synthesis as well as the complete compilation of the Mjølnir crater studies.Mangrove Ichnology of the Bay of Bengal Coast, Eastern India (Springer Geology)
By Chirananda De. 2019
This book focuses on the world’s largest mangrove delta complex, located at Sundarban, a world heritage site, and on the…
relatively new and rapidly expanding scientific discipline of ichnology. In addition to presenting a range of ichnological research databases that are widely applicable to multidisciplinary research fields in geology, biophysics, biology, ecology, geomorphology and the marine and environmental sciences, it addresses the global concern of rising sea levels to explain growing ecological problems, from the mass mortality of coastal organisms and rapid loss of mangrove forest wealth, to widespread coastal and riverbank erosion. It also demonstrates the value of applying new ichnological tools to coastal geotechnical planning and programming, and to groundwater exploration. Thus, the book addresses a broad readership including earth scientists from various disciplines, state administrators and members of the general public.This book is devoted to 250 years of collecting, organizing and preserving paleontological specimens by generations of scientists. Paleontological collections…
are a huge resource for modern research and should be available for national and international scientists and institutions, as well as prospective public and private customers. These collections are an important part of the scientific enterprise, supporting research, public education, and the documentation of past biodiversity. Much of what we are beginning to understand about our world, we owe to the collection, preservation, and ongoing study of natural specimens. Properly preserved collections of fossil marine or terrestrial plants and animals are archives of Earth's history and vital to our ability to learn about our place in its future.The approach employed by the editors involves not only an introduction to the paleontological collections in general, but also information on the international and national collection networks. Particular attention is given to new exhibition concepts and approaches of sorting, preserving and researching in paleontological collections and also their neglect and/or threat. In addition, the book provides information on all big public museums, on important state museums and regional Museums, and also on university collections.This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing scientific insight for readers with an interest in fossil record, biodiversity, taxonomy, or evolution, as well as natural history collections at large.Advances in South American Micropaleontology: Selected Papers of the 11th Argentine Paleontological Congress (Springer Earth System Sciences)
By Graciela Andrea Concheyro, Emiliana Bernasconi, Gabriela Catalina Cusminsky. 2019
This book offers many examples of calcareous microfossils and describes a new microfaunistic record in Argentina. These selected papers of…
the 11th Argentine Paleontological Congress include micropaleontological studies on material of different geological ages from several sites in Argentina and Colombia. The authors highlight several geological findings and explain the paleoenvironmental changes in Argentina and Colombia.Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
By Craig Childs. 2018
From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people…
in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates.In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How they got here, persevered, and ultimately thrived is a story that resonates from the Pleistocene to our modern era. The lower sea levels of the Ice Age exposed a vast land bridge between Asia and North America, but the land bridge was not the only way across. Different people arrived from different directions, and not all at the same time.The first explorers of the New World were few, their encampments fleeting. The continent they reached had no people but was inhabited by megafauna—mastodons, giant bears, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, five-hundred-pound panthers, enormous bison, and sloths that stood one story tall. The first people were hunters—Paleolithic spear points are still encrusted with the proteins of their prey—but they were wildly outnumbered and many would themselves have been prey to the much larger animals.Atlas of a Lost World chronicles the last millennia of the Ice Age, the violent oscillations and retreat of glaciers, the clues and traces that document the first encounters of early humans, and the animals whose presence governed the humans’ chances for survival. A blend of science and personal narrative reveals how much has changed since the time of mammoth hunters, and how little. Across unexplored landscapes yet to be peopled, readers will see the Ice Age, and their own age, in a whole new light.What Was the Ice Age? (What Was?)
By Nico Medina, David Groff, Who Hq. 2017
A mesmerizing overview of the world as it was when glaciers covered the earth and long-extinct creatures like the woolly…
mammoths and saber-toothed cats battled to survive.Go back 20,000 years ago to a time of much colder global temperatures when glaciers and extensive sheets of ice covered much of our planet. As these sheets traveled, they caused enormous changes in the Earth's landscape and climate, leading to the evolution of creatures such as giant armadillos, saber-toothed cats, and woolly mammoths as well as club-wielding Neanderthals and later the cleverer modern humans. Nico Medina re-creates this harsh ancient world in a vivid and easy-to-read narrative.The focus of this book is on the more than 2000 caves of the Greenbrier Valley of West Virginia of…
which the 14 with lengths greater than 10 km have an aggregate length of 639 km The major caves form the core part of sub-basins which drain to big springs and ultimately to the Greenbrier River Individual chapters of this book describe each of the major caves and its associated drainage basin The caves are formed in the Mississippian Greenbrier Limestone in a setting of undulating gentle folds Fractures lineaments and confining layers within the limestone are the main controlling factors The caves underlie an extensive sinkhole plain which may relate to a major erosion surface The caves are habitat for both aquatic and terrestrial organisms which are cataloged and described as are the paleontological remains found in some of the caves The sinkhole plain of the Greenbrier karst and the underlying complex of cave systems are the end result of at least a ten million year history of landscape evolution which can be traced through the evolving sequence of cave passages and which is described in this bookDinosaurs Among Us
By Gary Galbreath. 2017
Methods in Paleoecology
By Darin A. Croft, Denise F. Su, Scott W. Simpson. 2018
This volume focuses on the reconstruction of past ecosystems and provides a comprehensive review of current techniques and their application…
in exemplar studies. The 18 chapters address a wide variety of topics that span vertebrate paleobiology and paleoecology (body mass, postcranial functional morphology, evolutionary dental morphology, microwear and mesowear, ecomorphology, mammal community structure analysis), contextual paleoenvironmental studies (paleosols and sedimentology, ichnofossils, pollen, phytoliths, plant macrofossils), and special techniques (bone microstructure, biomineral isotopes, inorganic isotopes, 3-D morphometrics, and ecometric modeling). A final chapter discusses how to integrate results of these studies with taphonomic data in order to more accurately characterize an ancient ecosystem. Current investigators, advanced undergraduates, and graduate students interested in the field of paleoecology will find this book immensely useful. The length and structure of the volume also makes it suitable for teaching a college-level course on reconstructing Cenozoic ecosystems.Talking with T. Rex
By Rachel Young. 2017
How to Find a Fossil
By Amy Tao. 2017
Penny's Pet Peeves
By Amy Tao. 2016
Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology: Microfossils (Springer Geology)
By Sreepat Jain. 2020
This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and brief explanatory texts. Each chapter starts with a brief…
introduction, and goes on to describe the respective organism’s morphology in detail through numerous illustrations. This is followed by a brief note on its classification, and concludes with illustrated examples of stratigraphically important organisms through time with their major distinguishing characteristics. Featuring over 2500 clearly labelled, hand-drawn and classroom-friendly illustrations, the book offers a fundamental resource for budding palaeontologists, petroleum geologists and palaeobiologists.A Concise Dictionary of Paleontology: Second Edition
By Robert L. Carlton. 2019
This new and significantly updated authored dictionary is a unique glossary of paleontological terms, taxa, localities, and concepts. It focuses…
primarily on identifying the most significant groups of fossil animals and plants in relation to their evolution and phylogeny. It also focuses on mass extinctions, on taxa that are problematic in some significant way, on the principal fossil-Lagerstätten of the world, and on historical turning points marked by index fossils. Although there are many current resources on the subject, none contains an accurate representation of the paleontological lexicon. Although well aware that the fast-changing field of paleontology will always defy any attempt at complete description, the author has attempted to provide an accurate and comprehensive set of about 4,000 entries that will be useful to professionals as well as to general readers of scientific literature without a background in paleontology.Rock Secrets
By Betsy James. 2017
Yo Wants to Know: All About Dinosaurs!
By Lea Daniel. 2017
Tooth and Claw: The Dinosaur Wars
By Deborah Noyes. 2019
The tale of the epic rivalry between two foundational paleontologists to find bigger and better bones in the American West,…
perfect for readers of Steve Sheinkin and Candace Fleming.Today we take for granted the idea that dinosaurs once roamed the earth. But two hundred years ago, the very concept of an extinct species did not exist. When an English scientist proposed in 1841 that Dino Saurs ("terrible lizards") had come and gone, it was only a theory, a new way of explaining the "dragon" and "giant" bones scattered across the globe. But when proof turned up seventeen years later, it was not only incontrovertible; it was massive. Tooth and Claw tells the story of the feverish race between two brilliant, driven, and insanely competitive scientists--Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh--to uncover more and more monstrous fossils in the newly opened Wild West. Between them, they discovered dozens of major dinosaur species and established the new discipline of paleontology in America. But their bitter thirty-year rivalry--a "war" waged on wild plains and mountains, in tabloid newsprint, and in Congress--dramatically wrecked their professional and private lives even as it brought alive for the public a vanished prehistoric world.Smithsonian Dinosaurs and Other Amazing Creatures from Deep Time
By National Museum of Natural History, Blake Edgar. 2019
A fun, pocket-sized book presenting the remarkable dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed Earth billions of years agoSmithsonian Dinosaurs and…
Other Amazing Creatures from Deep Time traces the journey of life on Earth from its origins some 4.6 billion years ago. Beginning with the first evidence of life in the form of single-celled microbes, it moves through the Cambrian era's explosion of biodiversity around 540 million years ago through the mass extinction event 252 million years ago that cleared the stage for the first turtles, pterosaurs, and other dinosaurs and mammals of the Triassic era. It offers a rare look at some of the world's most fascinating creatures: from sauropods, the largest creatures to ever walk the land, to the top carnivorous predator Tyrannosaurus rex, as well as the mastodons, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, walrus-whales, and other beasts that seem outlandish to us now. Profiling these and many other fascinating creatures throughout prehistory, the book is sure to delight young dinosaur enthusiasts.