SUBJECT
Title
Applied micropaleontology
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 3
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
The role of the most important microfossils in the stratigraphy, paleoecology, paleobiogeography. It is based on the their most important taxonomical, systematical, stratigraphical and ecological features. The presented microfossil groups are the followings:
- Calcareous group: calcareous nannofossils, foraminifers, ostracods, otoliths, algae, bryozoans, Calpionellids and Calcisphaeras ;
- Siliceous group: sponges, diatoms, radiolarians, silicoflagellates;
- Organic-walled group: spores and pollen grains, dinoflagellates, acritarch, chitinozoa.
- Phosphatic: conodonts, ichthyolits, micromammals.
Readings
- Jones, R. W. (2011): Applications of Palaeontology: Techniques and Case Studies: Cambridge University Press. Armstrong, H. & Brasier, M. (2004): Microfossils. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Banner, F.T & Lord, A. R. (1982): Aspects of Micropaleontology, George Allen & Unwin (Pub.) Ltd. London.
- Jenkins, D. G. (ed.) (1993): Applied Micropalaeontology. Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordrecht, Boston, London,
- Loeblich, A. R. & Tappan, H. (1987): Foraminiferal genera and their classification. 2 vol., New York (van Nostrand Reinhold Company). Murray, J. M. (1991): Ecology and Palaeoecology of Benthic Foraminifera. Longman Scientific & Technical and John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York.
- Winter, A. & Siesser W. G. (1994): Coccolithophores. Cambridge University Press