The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521366151 ISBN 13: 9780521366151

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

The Proterozoic Biosphere is the first major study of the paleobiology of the Proterozoic Earth. It is a multidisciplinary work dealing with the evolution of the Earth, the environment, and life during the forty percent of Earth's history that extends from the middle of the Precambrian Eon (2500 Ma) to the beginning of the Paleozoic Era (550 Ma.). The Proterozoic Biosphere includes a vast amount of new data on Proterozoic organisms and their modern analogs. Prepared by the Precambrian Paleobiology Research Group, a multidisciplinary consortium of forty-one scientists from eight countries, this monograph will serve as a benchmark in the development of the science of the biochemistry and the organic chemistry of Proterozoic sediments. The three main goals of this study are: (1) to amass, evaluate, and synthesize the large body of paleobiologic data available from previous studies, eliminating mistakes so that future investigations will not be encumbered by them; (2) to generate new data and new analyses based on the reexamination of previous studies and on new investigations within an interdisciplinary framework; (3) to build toward the future by placing special emphasis on new or relatively neglected aspects of paleobiologic study and by highlighting major unsolved problems in the field.

About this title

Book Description

This 1992 book was was the first major study of the paleobiology of the Proterozoic Earth. It is a multidisciplinary work dealing with the evolution of the Earth, the environment and life during the portion of Earth's history between the middle of the Precambrian eon and the beginning of the Paleozoic era.

About the Author

J. William Schopf is Professor of Paleobiology and Director of the IGPP Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of "Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils "(1999) and "Missing Fossils: Solution to the Mystery of Photosynthesis "(1998), and has edited several other volumes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521366151
• ISBN 13: 9780521366151
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1374
• Editor: Schopf J. William, Klein Cornelis