Fundamentals of Geobiology - Softcover

KNOLL, ANDREW H

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ISBN 10: 1405187522 ISBN 13: 9781405187527

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

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In summary, Fundamentals of Geobiology would be a welcome addition to any geoscientist s bookshelf, especially those interested in sedimentary geology, palaeobiology or Earth history. (The Geological Journal, 1 January 2013) It would be this reviewer s stranded on a desert island selection. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. (Choice, 1 January 2013) PROSE Awards 2012: Honorable Mention in the Earth Sciences Category.

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2012 PROSE Award, Earth Science: Honorable Mention For more than fifty years scientists have been concerned with the interrelationships of Earth and life. Over the past decade, however, geobiology, the name given to this interdisciplinary endeavour, has emerged as an exciting and rapidly expanding field, fuelled by advances in molecular phylogeny, a new microbial ecology made possible by the molecular revolution, increasingly sophisticated new techniques for imaging and determining chemical compositions of solids on nanometer scales, the development of non-traditional stable isotope analyses, Earth systems science and Earth system history, and accelerating exploration of other planets within and beyond our solar system. Geobiology has many faces: there is the microbial weathering of minerals, bacterial and skeletal biomineralization, the roles of autotrophic and heterotrophic metabolisms in elemental cycling, the redox history in the oceans and its relationship to evolution and the origin of life itself. This book is the first to set out a coherent set of principles that underpin geobiology, and will act as a foundational text that will speed the dissemination of those principles. The chapters have been carefully chosen to provide intellectually rich but concise summaries of key topics, and each has been written by one or more of the leading scientists in that field. Fundamentals of Geobiology is aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduates in the Earth and biological sciences, and to the growing number of scientists worldwide who have an interest in this burgeoning new discipline. Additional resources for this book can be found at: http://www.wiley.com/go/knoll/geobiology.

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• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1405187522
• ISBN 13: 9781405187527
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480