Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology: Microfossils

by Sreepat Jain

Overview

This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and brief explanatory texts. Each chapter starts with a brief introduction, and goes on to describe the respective organism’s morphology in detail through numerous illustrations. This is followed by a brief note on its classification, and concludes with illustrated examples of stratigraphically important organisms through time with their major distinguishing characteristics. Featuring over 2500 clearly labelled, hand-drawn and classroom-friendly illustrations, the book offers a fundamental resource for budding palaeontologists, petroleum geologists and palaeobiologists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788132239604
Publisher:	Springer India
Publication date:	12/16/2019
Series:	Springer Geology
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	323
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Sreepat Jain is a Professor at the Department of Applied Geology, Adama Science and Technology University, Adama, Ethiopia. With over two decades of teaching and research experience, Prof. Jain holds two doctorates, one from India and the other from the United States. Prof. Jain has been awarded the “TA Excellence in Teaching” for meritorious teaching in the United States and has also received the prestigious “Prof. S. K. Singh Memorial Gold Medal” for best research paper from the Palaeontological Society of India (India). He has published several research articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals and has authored three books, two of which, Fundamental of Physical Geology (Springer) and Fundamental of Invertebrate Palaeontology: Macrofossils (Springer) are recommended for undergraduate Earth Science courses at several American universities. Both these Springer books have also received excellent international reviews. Prof. Jain also serves a reviewer for several international geoscience journals.

Table of Contents

Chitinozoa.- Acritarchs.- Pollen and Spores.- Dinoflagellates.- Conodonts.- Radiolarians.- Marine Diatoms.- Ostracods.- Benthic Foraminifera.- Calcareous Nannofossils.- Calpionellids.

Editorial Reviews

Jain’s new book ranks amongst the best reference tomes in reviewing cur­rent micropalaeontological knowledge and com­municating this in a highly suitable form … . this book aptly demonstrates the amazing diversity of microfossils. Important is the fact that all chapters are organised and styled similarly, and their length is comparable, making this tome really comprehensive. … both clarity and brevity of explanations make this book an easy read for a wider audience, including those people who have only very elementary knowledge of microfos­sils, or none at all.” (Dmitry A. Ruban, Geologos, Vol. 26 (3), 2020)

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