The Proterozoic biosphere : a multidisciplinary study
"'The Proterozoic biosphere' is the first major study of the paleobiology of the Proterozoic earth. It is a multidisciplinary work dealing with the evolution of the earth, the environment, and life during the 40% of earth's history that extended from the close of Precambrian Archean Eon (2500Ma ago) to the widespread appearance of invertebrate metazoan fossils (about 550Ma ago). 'The Proterozoic biosphere' includes a vast amount of new data on Proterozoic organisms and their modern analogues. Prepared by the Precambrian Paleobiology Research Group, a multidisciplinary consortium of forty-one scientists from eight countries, this monograph will serve as a benchmark in the development of the science of the paleontology, the organic geochemistry, and the paleoecology of Proterozoic sediments. The three main goals of the study are: 1. to amass, evaluate, and synthesize the large body of paleobiologic data available from previous studies, eliminating mistakes so that future investigations will not be encumbered by them; 2. to generate new data and new analyses based on the reexamination of previous studies and on new investigations within an interdisciplinary framework; and 3. to build toward the future by placing special emphasis on new or relatively neglected aspects of paleobiologic study and by highlighting major unsolved problems in the field." -- From the introductory preamble
Print Book, English, 1992
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992