Landmarks in Foraminiferal Micropalaeontology: History and Development
Print publication date: 19/12/2013
GSL for TMS, GSL and The Micropalaeontological Society, History of Geology, Palaeontology and geobiology
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862393714
Weight: 0.97kg
Number of pages: 360
£95.00
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Product Code: TMS006
TMS Special Publication 6.
Edited by A.J. Bowden, F.J. Gregory and A.S. Henderson
This TMS Special Publication comprises a collection of 23 papers with an international authorship reflecting on landmarks in the history and development of Foraminiferal micropalaeontology. The volume is prefaced by an introductory overview that provides a brief and selected historical setting, as well as the intended aims of the book.
Selected developments in Foraminiferal studies from a global perspective are presented from the time of Alcide d'Orbigny and the founding of the Paris MNHN collections in the mid-nineteenth century to the use of foraminifera in industry, other museum collections, palaeoceanography and environmental studies, regional studies from the Southern Hemisphere and the rise and fall of significant research schools. The book concludes with a chapter on the modelling of foraminifera.
Landmarks in Foraminiferal Micropalaeontology: History and Development will be of particular interest to micropalaeontologists, other Earth scientists, historians of science, museum curators and the general reader with an interest in science.
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Introduction and overview
BOWDEN, A.J., GREGORY, F.J. & HENDERSON, A.S. Introduction to Landmarks in Foraminiferal Micropalaeontology: History and Development
Early history 1800–1914
VÉNEC-PEYRÉ, M.-T. & BARTOLINI, A. Alcide d’Orbigny and the Paris foraminiferal collection
JONES, R.W. Henry Bowman Brady (1835–1891): the man, the scientist and the scientific legacy
JONES, R.W. Supplemental notes on the Challenger Foraminifera
WHITTAKER, J.E. Edward Heron-Allen FRS (1861–1943)
The rise of professionalism 1914–1950
YAKOVLEVA-O’NEILL, S.P. & KOZLOVA, G.E. A history of the first micropalaeontological laboratory in the former Soviet Union
REMIZOVA, S.T. The Soviet school of Palaeozoic Foraminifera micropalaeontology
HUBER, B.T., BUZAS, M.A., DREW, A. & JETT, J.A. History of foraminiferal collections at the Smithsonian Institution
The rise of applied micropalaeontology
HART, M.B. & BAILEY, H.W. Key figures from the history of research on the Foraminifera of the Chalk Group in the UK
MARTIN, R.E. The evolution of Gulf Coast micropalaeontology: from biostratigraphy to chronostratigraphy
FINGER, K.L. California foraminiferal micropalaeontology
HUGHES, G.W. Micropalaeontologists of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries
The rise of palaeoceanography post-Challenger
BERGER, W.H. On the beginnings of palaeoceanography: Foraminifera, pioneers and the Albatross Expedition
The rise of environmental micropalaeontology and palaeoecology
SEN GUPTA, B.K. The roots of environmental micropalaeontology: early inquiries into modern foraminiferal distributions
Australian, New Zealand, Asian and Sino-Japanese histories
LUNT, P. Foraminiferal micropalaeontology in SE Asia
SARASWATI, P.K. Foraminiferal study in India: a journey from taxonomy and time to ocean and climate
TAKAYANAGI, Y. & KITAZATO, H. Foraminiferology in Japan: a brief historical review
McGOWRAN, B. Martin Glaessner’s foraminiferal micropalaeontology
QUILTY, P.G. Foraminiferology in Australia, 1843–present
HAYWARD, B.W. & SCOTT, G.H. Historical review of New Zealand foraminiferal studies
Training and research schools
HART, M.B., HAYNES, J.R., with ALDRIDGE, R.J., BAILEY, H.W., GEHRELS, W.R., GREGORY, F.J., LORD, A.R., MURRAY, J.W., PEARSON, P.N. & WHITTAKER, J.E. A history of academic research on Foraminifera in the UK
PETRIZZO, M.R., PREMOLI SILVA, I. & CITA, M.B. The Milan school of foraminiferal micropalaeontology
HOTTINGER, L. Micropalaeontology in Basel (Switzerland) during the twentieth century: the rise and fall of one of the smaller fields of the life sciences
Depiction of form: modelling foraminifera
MILLER, C.G. A brief history of modelling Foraminifera: from d’Orbigny to Zheng Shouyi
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