Paleosols (fossil soils) are preserved throughout the geologic record in depositional settings
ranging from alluvial systems to between basalt flows. Until recently, paleosols were studied …

The stable isotope compositions of biogenic materials record a combination of
environmental parameters and biological processes. In general, the environment provides a …

It has been 10 years since publication of the first edition ofSoils of the Past. In that time the
subject of paleopedology hasgrown rapidly, and established itself within the mainstream …

Early during the twentieth Century, pioneering correlations between the Palaeozoic–
Mesozoic basins of South America and southern Africa were used by Alexander du Toit to …

The Karoo basins of south-central Africa evolved during the first-order cycle of
supercontinent assembly and breakup of Pangea, under the influence of two distinct tectonic …

The term" carbon cycle" is normally thought to mean those processes that govern the
present-day transfer of carbon between life, the atmosphere, and the oceans. This book …

Mammals are the dominant large animals of today, occurring in virtually every environment.
This book is an account of the remarkable 320 million year long fossil record that documents …

The biggest mass extinction of the past 600 million years (My), the end-Permian event
(251My ago), witnessed the loss of as much as 95% of all species on Earth. Key questions …

The Palaeozoic–Mesozoic transition is marked by distinct perturbations in the global carbon
cycle resulting in a prominent negative carbon-isotope excursion at the Permian–Triassic (P …

The biological extinction that occurred at the Permian–Triassic boundary represents the
most extensive loss of species of any known event of the past 550 million years. There have …