A History Of Life

1. The forgotten ingredient
(Theory of evolution/Earth Science matters)

...e of 75,000 years that costed Buffon a condemnation, the thousands bones studied by Cuvier, the rocks and strata of Arduino, Hutton and Lyell. Episodes and thinkers that allowed Darwin, and us today, ...

2. Kimmeridge Clays and the Sea of Britain
(Paleontological sites/Jurassic Europe)

... had a vocation for travelling and exploring the world, and to the parallel patterns designed by Jurassic strata, what has triggered their interest in geology and earth history. Pictures are high-qual...

3. From production to final burial
(Taphonomy/Shell transport)

...though with some lateral displacement from the original habitats (Dominici & Zuschin 2005). Paleogene strata in the Spanish Pyrenees, well-known to biostratigraphers and sedimentary geologists, be...

4. San Miniato and the history of Earth Science
(Paleontological sites/Neogene Europe)

... depicted by Mercati were collected at other regions, but one figured Conus shell was typical of Pliocene strata from his hometown. The importance of the San Miniato fossils is accounted for by the vi...

5. Back to the Basin
(Paleontological sites/Paleogene Europe)

...re Grignon and La Ferme de l’Orme, in the Yvelines, and Fleury-La-Riviere, in the Marne. Lutetian strata of the Paris Basin are claimed to bear the record of the highest molluscan diversity of...

6. Shell beds at ravinement surfaces
(Taphonomy/Shell beds and sequence stratigraphy)

...respond to intervals of maximum-flooding. The lowermost shell bed in this meter-scale group of strata is interspersed with rounded coarse gravels, bioeroded and encrusted with red algae, se...