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The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
(more) »rank: 490564by: David Beerling
: :Global warming is contentious and difficult to measure, even among the majority of scientists who agree that it is taking place. Will temperatures rise by 2oC or 8oC over the next hundred years? Will sea levels rise by 2 or 30 feet? The only way that we can accurately answer questions like these is by looking into the distant past, for a comparison with the world long before the rise of mankind. We may currently believe that atmospheric shifts, like global warming, result from our impact on the planet, but the earth's atmosphere has been dramatically shifting since its creation. This book ...
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Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota
(more) »rank: 213343by: Lynn M. Steiner
: :Gardeners use native plants for several reasons. For many, their initial attraction is to native plants’ reputation for being low maintenance, as well as their ability to survive difficult soil and weather conditions. But equally appealing is the joy of connecting with nature and our state’s natural heritage and the satisfaction of creating a real sense of place rather than just another cookie-cutter landscape. 'Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota' is the first book designed to help you identify Minnesota’s native plants and plant communities and to demonstrate how to use them effectively in a typical home landscape. In this book you’ll ...
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Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes
(more) »rank: 294158from: Cambridge University Press
: :With their team of contemporary scholars, the editors present a thorough coverage of fundamental topics necessary for obtaining an up-to-date understanding of the biology of ferns and lycophytes. The book is organized into major topics that build from the individual and its biochemistry and structure, to genetics and populations, to interactions among individuals and the conservation of species, and concludes with perspectives on evolutionary history and classification. Each chapter is organized to review past work, explore current questions, and suggest productive directions for continued discoveries about these fascinating groups of organisms. Written for upper undergraduates, graduates and academic researchers, Biology and Evolution ...
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The common fossils of Missouri (Missouri handbook)
(more) »rank: 294158by: A. G Unklesbay
: :With their team of contemporary scholars, the editors present a thorough coverage of fundamental topics necessary for obtaining an up-to-date understanding of the biology of ferns and lycophytes. The book is organized into major topics that build from the individual and its biochemistry and structure, to genetics and populations, to interactions among individuals and the conservation of species, and concludes with perspectives on evolutionary history and classification. Each chapter is organized to review past work, explore current questions, and suggest productive directions for continued discoveries about these fascinating groups of organisms. Written for upper undergraduates, graduates and academic researchers, Biology and Evolution ...
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Plants and the K-T Boundary (Cambridge Paleobiology Series)
(more) »rank: 406696by: Douglas J. Nichols, Kirk R. Johnson
: :In Plants and the K-T Boundary, two of the world's leading experts in palynology and paleobotany provide a comprehensive account of the fate of land plants during the 'great extinction' about 65 million years ago. They describe how the time boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene Periods (the K-T boundary) is recognized in the geological record, and how fossil plants can be used to understand global events of that time. There are case studies from over 100 localities around the world, including North America, China, Russia and New Zealand. The book concludes with an evaluation of possible causes of the K-T boundary ...
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Ancient Forests: A Closer Look at Fossil Wood
(more) »rank: 701291by: Frank J. Daniels, Richard D. Dayvault
: :ANCIENT FORESTS: A CLOSER LOOK AT FOSSIL WOOD Perhaps the most intriguing, beautiful, and informative fossil wood book of all time, exploring the subject with images to illustrate each point — with Scanning Electron Microscope images, digital micro images, macro photographs, and medium format photographs. Frank Daniels and geologist Dick Dayvault team up to explore the intricacies of fossil wood by leading the reader on an expedition into the micro world of fossil wood mineralization and cell structures. 1600 color photographs, charts, and diagrams, including 438 fossil wood micro images, 40 Geologic Landscapes ™, and 46 thin section micrographs from modern conifers ...
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FOSSIL PLANTS PB (Smithsonian's Living Past)
(more) »rank: 126849by: Kenrick P
: :An amazing look at plants of the past through an examination of the fossils that remain. Long before there were animals on the earth, many kinds of plants covered the prehistoric planet. The soft remains rarely fossilized, but sometimes leaves, flowers, and branches would fall into soft mud or be encased by the ash of exploding volcanoes. These plants were preserved and now offer a sampling of life in the distant past and a contrast to our present flora. This complete guide to fossil plants explains both the lives of ancient plants and why certain plants became fossilized. Kenrick and Davis trace ...
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Petrified wood in the U.S.A: Where to collect it where to see it (A state -by-state field guide)
(more) »rank: 702573by: Arthur Manning
: :Family Fossil Fun! No matter where you may travel in the great American West, you're probably not too far from a short excursion off the beaten path, away from the crowded tourist attractions, to where you and your family can view and/or legally collect some fascinating fossils of petrified wood. It's fun finding your very own unique piece of evidence of life which might have been deposited by Noah's Flood. Also, you may want to include one or more of the ten most spectacular petrified forests in your vacation plans. There's even several places where you may find these fossils in the ...
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The greening of Gondwana
(more) »rank: 2753552by: M. E White
: :For the first time scientist, specialist and the general reader can follow Australia's plant ancestry, and appreciate the individuality that has evolved from an inheritance in common with plants from other southern lands. This third edition is updated to incorporate the most recent ideas about the evolution of Australia's modern flora and the nature of Gondwanan forests at the time of separation from Antarctica. It is llustrated with over 400 magnificent photographs of fossils and living plants.
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Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood, Cones, Ferns, and Cycads
(more) »rank: 551953by: Frank J. Daniels
: :176 pages with 430 full color photographs of some of the most beautiful fossil specimens in existence. Chapters include Paleobotany, Geology, Mineralogy, and Collecting Petrified Materials. Hundreds of specimens from private collections are for the first time available for public view. Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood, Cones, Ferns, and Cycads presents photographs of fossil specimens from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Madagascar, Turkey, and Zimbabwe, and from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming in the United States. Photographs include a variety of types and genera of wood, including Araucaria, Woodworthia, Schilderia, Pentoxylon, Hermanophyton, oak, maple, tamarack, and ...
