Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- The Proterozoic Biosphere
- PART I
- 1 Geology and Paleobiology of the Archean Earth
- 2 Geological Evolution of the Proterozoic Earth
- 3 Proterozoic Biogeochemistry
- 4 Proterozoic Atmosphere and Ocean
- 5 Proterozoic and Selected Early Cambrian Microfossils: Prokaryotes and Protists
- 6 Modern Mat-Building Microbial Communities: a Key to the Interpretation of Proterozoic Stromatolitic Communities
- 7 Proterozoic and Earliest Cambrian Carbonaceous Remains, Trace and Body Fossils
- 8 The Proterozoic-Early Cambrian Evolution of Metaphytes and Metazoans
- 9 Molecular Phylogenetics, Molecular Paleontology, and the Proterozoic Fossil Record
- 10 Biostratigraphy and Paleobiogeography of the Proterozoic
- 11 Biotic Diversity and Rates of Evolution During Proterozoic and Earliest Phanerozoic Time
- 12 A Paleogeographic Model for Vendian and Cambrian Time
- 13 Evolution of the Proterozoic Biosphere: Benchmarks, Tempo, and Mode
- PART 2
- References Cited
- Subject Index
- Index to Geologic Units
- Taxonomic Index
1 - Geology and Paleobiology of the Archean Earth
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 April 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- The Proterozoic Biosphere
- PART I
- 1 Geology and Paleobiology of the Archean Earth
- 2 Geological Evolution of the Proterozoic Earth
- 3 Proterozoic Biogeochemistry
- 4 Proterozoic Atmosphere and Ocean
- 5 Proterozoic and Selected Early Cambrian Microfossils: Prokaryotes and Protists
- 6 Modern Mat-Building Microbial Communities: a Key to the Interpretation of Proterozoic Stromatolitic Communities
- 7 Proterozoic and Earliest Cambrian Carbonaceous Remains, Trace and Body Fossils
- 8 The Proterozoic-Early Cambrian Evolution of Metaphytes and Metazoans
- 9 Molecular Phylogenetics, Molecular Paleontology, and the Proterozoic Fossil Record
- 10 Biostratigraphy and Paleobiogeography of the Proterozoic
- 11 Biotic Diversity and Rates of Evolution During Proterozoic and Earliest Phanerozoic Time
- 12 A Paleogeographic Model for Vendian and Cambrian Time
- 13 Evolution of the Proterozoic Biosphere: Benchmarks, Tempo, and Mode
- PART 2
- References Cited
- Subject Index
- Index to Geologic Units
- Taxonomic Index
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- The Proterozoic BiosphereA Multidisciplinary Study, pp. 5 - 42Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992
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