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Geobiology : objectives, concepts, perspectives /
Geobiology is an exciting and rapidly developing research discipline that opens new perspectives in understanding Earth as a system. To determine and to exploit its possibilities, this promising scientific field will benefit from a discussion of its definition as a research discipline, its objective...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: geobiology- a holistic scientific discipline / N. Noffke
- Geobiology and the fossil record: eukaryotes, microbes, and their interactions / D.J. Bottjer
- Geobiology and paleobiogeography: tracking the coevolution of the Earth and its biota / B.S. Lieberman
- The contributions of biogeomorphology to the emerging field of geobiology / L.A. Naylor
- Temperature and salinity history of the Precambrian ocean: implications for the course of microbial evolution / L.P. Knauth
- Production and cycling of natural microbial exopolymers (EPS) within a marine stromatolite / A.W. Decho, P.T. Visscher and R.P. Reid
- Microbial mats as bioreactors: populations, processes, and products / P.T. Visscher and J.F. Stolz
- Geobiology of microbial carbonates: metazoan and seawater saturation state influences on secular trends during the Phanerozoic / R. Riding and L. Liang
- The role of microorganisms and biofilms in the breakdown and dissolution of quartz and glass / U. Brehm, A. Gorbushina and D. Mottershead
- Expanding frontiers in deep subsurface microbiology / J.P. Amend and A. Teske
- Microbial transformations of organic matter in black shales and implications for global biogeochemical cycles / S.T. Petsch, K.J. Edwards and T.I. Eglinton
- Geo-biological aspects of coastal oil pollution / L. Berthe-Corti and T. H�opner
- Biogeochemistry: now and into the future / G.A. Cutter.