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I am pleased to be able to introduce this book by Monsieur lean-Claude Gall, firstly because it is a book, secondly because its author has been a colleague for 15 years, and finally because it is a book which demonstrates the growing importance of Palaeobiology. ""Because it is a book"". I have already commented else­ where on the value which the Earth Science community places on a book. And here I am speaking, not of a thesis or a specialised memoir, which are always precious, but of a manual or text, which draws on the experts in the service of all. In the years preceding and following the Second World War, the number of ""books"" written by French geologists could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Today I am happy to see that the number of geological ""books"" is increas­ ing in France, taking the word ""geology"" in its broadest sense. This I see as a sign of the growth of the Earth Sciences.

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Author:   J.-C. Gall ,  P. Wallace
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.435kg
ISBN:  

9783642689116

ISBN 10:   3642689116
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   10 December 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

One Information Deduced from the Fossils and the Sediment.- 1: Modes of Life.- 2: Constraints on Living Conditions.- 3: Evidence of Biological Activity.- 4: The Sediment.- 5: Sedimentary Environments.- 6: Fossiliferous Horizons.- two Reconstruction of Some Ancient Environments.- 7: The Ediacara Fauna.- 8: The Old Red Sandstone Continent.- 9: The Decazeville Coal Basin.- 10: The Grès à Voltzia Delta.- 11: The Reefs of Hoher Göll.- 12: The Holzmaden Bituminous Shale Sea..- 13: The Solnhofen Lagoon.- 14: The Shores of the Auversian Sea.- 15: The Acheulian Hunters’ Cave at Le Lazaret..- Appendix I: Guide to the Palaeoecological Study of Fossiliferous Horizons.- Appendix II: Table Summarizing the Principal Features of the Environment.- Appendix III: Stratigraphie Position of Some European Fossiliferous Horizons.- References.

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