Introduction to Paleobiogeography

Author: Du Yuansheng
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book is compiled to meet the needs of teaching reform in geological disciplines at colleges and universities. It integrates paleontology and historical geology into a new textbook, consisting of 16 chapters. The book takes the evolution of the organic and inorganic worlds during geological history as its main thread, guided by the ideas of stage theory and activity theory, striving to organically integrate paleontology and historical geology. It systematically introduces the basic theories and fundamental knowledge of paleontology and historical geology. In terms of content adjustment, the book strengthens the basic concepts, theories, and fundamental knowledge of paleontology and historical geology, simplifies the classification of paleontological groups and the stratigraphic content of each period, and briefly introduces major events in the organic and inorganic worlds during geological history, as well as the marginal and interdisciplinary subjects of paleontological historical geology. This book is systematic, concise, and appropriately illustrated, making it suitable as a textbook for paleontological historical geology in geological departments of colleges and universities, as well as for other professionals in geology-related fields.