Hands-On Palaeontology : A Practical Manual / Stephen K. Donovan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donovan, Stephen K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleontology--Methodology.

Paleontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Dunedin Academic Press Ltd, [2021]

Summary:

A comprehensible reference manual for palaeontologists on many aspects of their science. Topics discussed range from the esoteric, such as palaeoecology and preservation, to the practical, such as the storing of specimens and photography.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Sources

Foreword (by Professor David A.T. Harper, Durham University)

Introduction

Getting started

Chapter 1 How to collect

Chapter 2 Where to collect

Chapter 3 What to collect

Chapter 4 The field notebook

Chapter 5 Measuring sections (and why)

Chapter 6 The Law of Superposition

Chapter 7 Fossiliferous sedimentary rocks: Siliciclastics

Chapter 8 Fossiliferous sedimentary rocks: Limestones, flints, cherts and coals

Chapter 9 Reworked fossils

Chapter 10 Fossils as way-up structures

Chapter 11 Fossils as current indicators

Chapter 12 Your palaeontological library

Chapter 13 Fossils in caves

Chapter 14 Beachcombing

Chapter 15 Common sense in the field

Chapter 16 Collecting with a camera

Chapter 17 Buying specimens

Some theoretical aspects

Chapter 18 Palaeoecology 1: The organism

Chapter 19 Palaeoecology 2: Organism meets organism

Chapter 20 Palaeoecology 3: Getting more information from the bed

Chapter 21 Preservation 1: Fossilization

Chapter 22 Preservation 2: Death

Chapter 23 Preservation 3: Disarticulation, transport and residence

Chapter 24 Preservation 4: Burial and diagenesis

Chapter 25 Trace fossils

Working on your collection at home

Chapter 26 Storage

Chapter 27 Labelling

Chapter 28 Photography at home

Chapter 29 Drawing

Chapter 30 Specializing in your favourite fossil group

Chapter 31 Writing descriptions

Chapter 32 Casting from natural moulds

Chapter 33 Problems with preservation

The wider field: getting involved

Chapter 34 Collaboration

Chapter 35 Scientific societies

Chapter 36 Conferences

Chapter 37 Journals and magazines

Chapter 38 Offprints, PDFs and filing

Chapter 39 Visiting museums

Chapter 40 Ideas for further involvement.

Chapter 41 Publishing I: Persuading you to get involved

Chapter 42 Publishing II: The hard work of self-editing

Chapter 43 Publishing III: How to publish a new species

Fossils in many fields

Chapter 44 The field guide

Chapter 45 Field trip: Den Haag, the Netherlands

Chapter 46 Field trip: The Piltdown Trail

Chapter 47 Field trip: Overstrand to Cromer, Norfolk

Chapter 48 Field trip: Cleveleys, Lancashire

Chapter 49 Field trip: Queen Victoria's bathing beach, Isle of Wight

Chapter 50 Field trip: Salthill Quarry, Clitheroe

Chapter 51 Field trip: Hurdlow, Derbyshire

Chapter 52 Field trip: Antigua

Chapter 53 Field trip: Aktuo-Paläontologie of Southport Beach, Merseyside

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781780466644

1780466641

OCLC:

1258905505