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Isotope geology. by Rankama, Kalervo,1913-(CARDINAL)843584;
Includes bibliography.
Subjects: Isotope geology.;
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Shorter contributions to isotope research / by Peterman, Zell E.(CARDINAL)277774; Schnabel, Diane C.(CARDINAL)289071;
Subjects: Geological time.; Isotope geology; Geology;
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New frontiers in stable isotopic research : laser probes, ion probes, and small-sample analysis / by Shanks, Wayne C.(CARDINAL)289063; Criss, R. E.(CARDINAL)289062; USGS Development of Assessment Techniques Program.(CARDINAL)308032;
Includes bibliographical references."Results of a workshop held in Reston, Va., January 12-13, 1988, on laser microprobe and ion microprobe analysis techniques performed on geological samples for stable and rare gas isotopic ratios."
Subjects: Isotope geology; Microprobe analysis;
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The isotopic signature of classical marbles / by Attanasio, Donato.(CARDINAL)355343; Brilli, Mauro.(CARDINAL)355466; Ogle, Neil.(CARDINAL)355465;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index.System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: none given.
Subjects: Marble; Isotope geology.; Quarries and quarrying;
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Irradiation of samples for ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating using the Geological Survey TRIGA reactor / by Dalrymple, G. Brent.(CARDINAL)277941;
Bibliography: pages 54-55.
Subjects: Argon; Radioactive dating.; Nuclear reactors.;
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Neoproterozoic geobiology and paleobiology / by Xiao, Shuhai.(CARDINAL)325819; Kaufman, Alan Jay.(CARDINAL)325818; Geological Society of America.Meeting(115th :2003 :Seattle, Wash.);
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Paleontology; Paleoecology; Evolutionary paleobiology; Geobiology; Paleobiology; Geology, Stratigraphic;
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Methods for geochemical analysis / by Baedecker, Philip A.(CARDINAL)269103;
Includes bibliographical references.Analysis of geologic materials by direct-current arc emission spectrography and spectrometry / D.W. Golightly [and others] -- Inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry / F.E. Lichte [and others] -- Atomic absorption methods / P.J. Aruscavage and J.G. Crock -- Chemical methods of separation for optical emission, atomic absorption spectrometry, and colorimetry / S.A. Wilson [and others] -- Analysis of geologic materials by wavelength-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry / J.E. Taggart [and others] -- Energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry / R.G. Johnson and B.-S. L. King -- Major and minor elements requiring individual determination, classical whole rock analysis, and rapid rock analysis / L.L. Jackson [and others] -- Instrumental neutron activation analysis of geochemical samples / P.A. Baedecker and D.M. McKown -- Determination of uranium and thorium by delayed neutron counting / D.M. McKown and H.T. Millard, Jr. -- Radiochemical neutron activation analysis of geologic materials / G.A. Wandless -- Isotope-dilution mass spectrometry / J.A. Philpotts.Analytical methods used in the Geologic Division laboratories of the U.S. Geological Survey for the inorganic chemical analysis of rock and mineral samples.
Subjects: Analytical geochemistry.;
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Use of stable isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur to identify sources of nitrogen in surface waters in the lower Susquehanna River Basin, Pennsylvania / by Cravotta, Charles A.(CARDINAL)269126; Pennsylvania.Bureau of Soil and Water Conservation.(CARDINAL)269167; Geological Survey (U.S.)(CARDINAL)154385;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-68).
Subjects: Nitrogen; Radioactive tracers in water pollution research; Water;
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Contributions to mineral resources research, 1984 / by Bush, Alfred Lerner,1919-(CARDINAL)269684;
Includes bibliographical references.Authigenic potassium feldspar in the Davis Formation (Upper Cambrian), Missouri / by G.A. Desborough, J.J. Connor and Maya Elrick -- Distribution, petrology, and mineral potential of peraluminous granitoid plutons in the eastern and southeastern Arabian Shield, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia / by Edward A. du Bray -- Muscovites from selected aplites and quartz veins of White Pine County, Nevada / by D.E. Lee, E.L.M. Brandt adn J.D. Gleason -- Chemical and stable-isotope data for micas from metaclastic rocks of eastern White Pine County, Nevada / by D.E. Lee, R.E. Van Loenen, E.L.M. Brandt and J.D. Gleason -- Metallogeny of Archean and Proterozoic terranes in the Great Lakes region: a brief overview / by Paul K. Sims -- Sodium hypochlorite as an aid to the extraction of clay minerals from black shales / by Harry C. Starkey -- Platinum and palladium in a mafic dike, Sanders County, Montana / by R.E. Van Loenen, Joseph Haffty and R.L. Earhart -- Metalliferous oil shale in the Upper Devonian Gibellini facies of the Woodruff Formation in the Southern Fish Creek Range, Nevada / by George A. Desborough, Forrest G. Poole, Richard K. Hose and Gregory N. Green.
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources; Mines and mineral resources;
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Fossil horses : systematics, paleobiology, and evolution of the family Equidae / by MacFadden, Bruce J.(CARDINAL)337066;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-356) and indexes.1. Introduction: Why study fossil horses? The lore of horses and humans. Rationale, purpose, and scope -- 2. A renaissance in paleontology. The growth of vertebrate paleontology. The past few decades: a modern renaissance. New fossil discoveries. The new paleobiology -- 3. Orthogenesis and scientific thought: old notions die hard. The foundations of orthogenesis. Marsh and fossil horses. Orthogenetic concepts and causality. Other views of fossil horses: a complexly branching tree. The spread of orthogenesis: old notions die hard -- 4. Collections, museums, and exceptional discoveries. The antiquity and development of collecting fossil vertebrates. The importance of museum collections. Fossil horses, exceptional discoveries, and Lagerstatten: six case studies. Epilogue: conservation of threatened sites -- 5. Systematics and phylogeny: Ungulata, Perissodactyla, and. Equidae. History of development of systematic thought: Ungulata and Perissodactyla. Monophyly and close relatives of the Perissodactyla. Perissodactyl clades: the cast of characters. The phylogenetic position of Hyracotherium. Grades, clades, and horses. Major clades of New World Equidae. Comments on the systematics of the Equidae.6. Isotopes, magnetic reversals, fossils, and geological time. Relative geological time. "Absolute" geological time: isotopes and paleomagnetism. Development of Cenozoic land-mammal Chronology and fossil horses. Concluding remarks -- 7. Ancient geography, changing climates, dispersal, and vicariance. Biogeography before plate tectonics. Determinants of land-mammal distribution. Centers of origin and patterns of dispersal. Plate tectonics, Noah's Arks, vicariance, and isotopes. Distribution of fossil horses throughout the Cenozoic. Concluding comments -- 8. Evolutionary processes: variation, speciation, and extinction. Phenotypic variation and selection: the raw material and evolutionary catalyst. Species recognition in paleontology. Interpreting anagenesis and cladogenesis from the fossil record: theoretical and practical considerations. Speciation of fossil horses in North America. Key characters, adaptive radiations, and clade evolution. Extinction -- 9. Rates of morphological and taxonomic evolution. Quantifying rates of morphological evolution: Haldane and darwins. Rates of morphological change in fossil horses. Allometry and scaling of horse evolution: Does ontogeny recapitulate phylogeny?Cenozoic terrestrial communities in North America and fossil horses. Patterns of community structure: selected topics related to fossil horses. Concluding comments on paleoecology of Cenozoic mammals -- 14. Epilogue. Dominant themes. The future of paleontology. Concluding comments: So, where do we go from here? -- App. I. Abbreviations and conventions used in the text -- App. II. Classification of the Equidae.Taxonomic evolution: origination, duration, and extinction. Concluding remarks: Are evolutionary rates gradual or punctuated? -- 10. Trends, laws, direction, and progress in evolution. Fossil horses and classic trends in evolution. Cope's law and the evolution of body size in horses. Dollo's law, atavisms, and the irreversibility of evolution. Progress and purpose in evolution -- 11. What's the use? Functional morphology of feeding and locomotion. Feeding: herbivorous ungulates and hypsodonty. Horses and herbivory. Locomotion and the evolution of cursoriality. Concluding comment: horse chauvinism -- 12. Population dynamics, behavioral ecology, and "paleoethology" Behavioral ecology and social organization of modern equids. Behavioral ecology and social organization of fossil horses: juggling the parameters. Sex in fossil horses. Age structure and population dynamics. Evolution of body size, vegetation, habitat, and climate: implications for the population biology of fossil Equidae. Evolution of selected life-history strategies from Hyracotherium to Equus: a summary. Concluding remarks: Does behavior fossilize? -- 13. Fifty-eight million years of community evolution. Chronofaunas and paleoguilds.
Subjects: Horses, Fossil.; Horses; Horses; Paleontology; Equidae, Fossil.; Equidae; Equidae;
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