Product Description: Whether in the context of off-shore oil exploration or pure research, the oceans of the geological past have never been of more compelling interest. The recent expansion in oceanographic studies has produced a burgeoning of data on ancient ocean circulation, climate, bathymetry, chemistry, biology, and temperature data that now should be considered in a more general geological and paleontological framework...read more

Product Description: Pp. vi, 250; some text-figures (maps, charts, phylogenies, cladograms, etc.). Original light brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, 8vo. This edited volume contains a number of key papers - the most well-known is Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism...read more