• ISBN13: 9781402056093
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Springer
• Publisher Imprint: Springer
• Publication Date: May 18, 2007
• Pages: 814
• Original Price: EUR 199.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1556 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Paleontology, Earth Sciences / Geology, and Earth Sciences / Sedimentology & Stratigraphy

This book provides complete coverage of all aspects of the study of all fossil palynomorphs yet studied. It is a profusely illustrated treatment. It follows the first edition in being the only English language, one-volume, one-author treatment of the whole field. The book serves both as a student text and general reference work.

The book gives directions for the collection of rock samples from which they can be separated, and the lab methods used in preparation of fossils from such rocks. The gradual introduction of concepts, and the stratigraphic organization of presentation, makes it possible to learn palynology from this book with a minimum of supervision. The glossary, bibliographies and index are useful tools for study of the literature.

Alfred Traverse first encountered palynology, then a smaller subject called 'pollen analysis', in courses at Cambridge University under Harry Godwin and others, in 1946-47. At Harvard University he did a Ph. D. dissertation with E. S. Barghoorn on a mid-Cenozoic palynoflora, it was in 1951 the first doctoral dissertation on paleopalynology in the USA. He then worked as a coal technologist and palynologist for the U.S. Bureau of Mines and Shell Oil Company, 1951-1965, and became Assistant Professor of Palynology at Pennsylvania State University, 1966-92. He was guest professor of palynology at the Swiss Federal Technical Institute, 1980-81, and at the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, Germany, 1991-92. He is now Emeritus Professor Palynology at Penn State, and continues to do research in the field. His publications in palynology cover all geological periods from Ordovician to present, and many of the kinds of palynomorphs, as well a such contributions to general palynological topics as the books, Paleopalynology (1^st Ed., Unwin-Hyman, 1988), and Sedimentation of Organic Particles (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994). He was for some years Editor of the Catalog of Fossil Spores and Pollen, and remains keenly interested in nomenclature and systematics of fossil palynomorphs.