The Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils, Fossils of the Rhaetian Penarth Group

The Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils, Fossils of the Rhaetian Penarth Group by Andrew Swift

The Rhaetian Penarth Group includes the former Westbury Beds, Cotham Beds, and White Lias. It crops out in a narrow strip from the Devon and Dorset coast to the mouth of the Tees, and is particularly well known from the exposures along the Bristol Channel. This diverse suite of late Triassic sedimentary rocks is internationally famous for the fossils that it yields, most notably from the bone beds. Coverage is comprehensive, with separate chapters on foraminifera, gastropods, bivalves, crustaceans, insects, echinoderms, other invertebrates, conodonts, fish, tetrapods, trace fossils and plants. There are background chapters on sedimentology, stratigraphy and the formation of the bone beds. The guide is copiously illustrated with specimens from all major UK public collections of Penarth Group fossils illustrated on 26 plates and 30 text-figures. It will be of use both to collectors who want to know more about this diverse and interesting suite of fossils, as well as to students of of geology who wish to understand their conditions of deposition and accumulation.

Andrew Swift is presently Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Associate Director of the National Wind Institute at Texas Tech University, where his focus is on wind energy education and workforce development. His previous academic appointments include Director of the Wind Science and Engineering Research Center at Texas Tech and Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso.

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ISBN 13	9780901702654
ISBN 10	090170265X
Title	The Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils, Fossils of the Rhaetian Penarth Group
Author	Andrew Swift
Series	Palaentology Fg Fossils
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	1999-11-08
Number of pages	316
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