Comments on: Book review – Earth History and Palaeogeography

By: Book review – A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:24:19 +0000

[…] The average reader might struggle to visualise where now-separated continents were located. My go-to reference is admittedly rather technical; instead, Barker & Naish authored an innovative dinosaur atlas […]

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By: Book review – Ocean Life in the Time of Dinosaurs | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:06:09 +0000

[…] the Mesozoic Era 252–66 million years ago (mya), specifically the position of the continents (the palaeogeography) and the various extinction crises by which we divide this time span. After this, the first half is […]

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By: Book review – Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:28:49 +0000

[…] palaeobiogeography—as one line of evidence towards the larger project of reconstructing maps of our planet through time. As an example, the trilobite faunas found on the eastern and western sides of Newfoundland differ […]

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By: Book review – Europasaurus: Life on Jurassic Islands / Urzeitinseln voller Leben | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:22:54 +0000

[…] large parts of Europe were an archipelago bordering the Tethys ocean that was slowly closing as tectonic plates moved to meet each other. There are interesting stories surrounding Europasaurus that could have been […]

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By: Book review – Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea (Second Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:07:51 +0000

[…] water that no longer exist due to plate tectonics, changes in sea-level, or both (see my review of Earth History and Palaeogeography). Where, for instance, the Tethys Ocean closed over time (see Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped […]

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By: Book review – Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 08:54:23 +0000

[…] ice ages came about (the position of the continents being one important factor, see my review of Earth History and Palaeogeography), the book takes a roughly chronological approach, dropping down to the resolution of geologic […]

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By: Book review – Essentials of Geology (13th Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 15 Feb 2019 09:34:28 +0000

[…] has a wonderful output of advanced-level books that I really want to read. But when I reviewed Earth History and Palaeogeography some time ago, I realised I was out of my depth and struggled with the jargon. Is it ever too late […]

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By: Book review – The Tectonic Plates are Moving! | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – The Tectonic Plates are Moving! | The Inquisitive Biologist — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 08:12:07 +0000

[…] the Earth’s core and the mantle called Tuzo and Jason? Torsvik & Cock described them in Earth History and Palaeogeography as plume generating zones responsible for the majority of the large volcanic eruptions linked to […]

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By: Book review – Land Bridges: Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 03 Sep 2018 08:41:19 +0000

[…] role of these land bridges in human prehistory is also discussed. I also kept the recently reviewed Earth History and Palaeogeography at hand as a reference work. Although Graham provides a few maps and links to a useful interactive […]

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