Screen LibraryFundamentals of geobiology
For more than fifty years scientists have been concerned with the interrelationships of Earth and life. Over the past decade, however, geobiology, the name given to this interdisciplinary endeavour, has emerged as an exciting and rapidly expanding field, fuelled by advances in molecular phylogeny, a...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118280874 |
| Summary: |
For more than fifty years scientists have been concerned with the interrelationships of Earth and life. Over the past decade, however, geobiology, the name given to this interdisciplinary endeavour, has emerged as an exciting and rapidly expanding field, fuelled by advances in molecular phylogeny, a new microbial ecology made possible by the molecular revolution, increasingly sophisticated new techniques for imaging and determining chemical compositions of solids on nanometer scales, the development of non-traditional stable isotope analyses, Earth systems science and Earth system history, a |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xii, [24], 443 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781118280874 (electronic bk.) 1118280873 (electronic bk.) 9781118280867 1118280865 |
| Index Number: | QH343 |
| CLC: | Q91 |
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What is geobiology? / The global carbon cycle: biological processes / The global carbon cycle: geological processes / The global nitrogen cycle / The global sulfur cycle / The global iron cycle / The global oxygen cycle / Bacterial biomineralization / |