Quick
Search: 		  
advanced search
 GSW Home   GeoRef Home   My GSW Alerts   Contact GSW   About GSW   Journals List   Help 
  Geological Magazine   Signup for GSW Email News
JOURNAL HOME HELP CONTACT PUBLISHER SUBSCRIBE ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Geological Magazine; March 2003; v. 140; no. 2; p. 232-233; DOI: 10.1017/S0016756803247841
© 2003 Cambridge University Press (CUP)
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Related articles in Geological Magazine
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Morris, S. C.
Right arrow Search for Related Content

Review

BRUNTON, C. H. C., COCKS, L. R. M. & LONG, S. L. (eds) 2001. Brachiopods Past and Present.

Systematics Association Special Volume 63. xiii + 441 pp. London: copublished by Taylor & Francis with The Systematics Association. Price £80.00 (hard covers). ISBN 0 748 40921 1.

Simon Conway Morris

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

The editors’ foreword is exceedingly brief and also exceedingly forthright, as they remark: ‘far more delegates [to the Millennium Brachiopod Congress] offered written papers than are published here, and this is because we wanted a structured book which would stand alone in its own right and not just a mishmash of symposium contributions linked only by the single word "brachiopod"’. How well, then, have they succeeded? At one level, well enough. The 41 chapters are gathered into five thematic sections, each with a short introduction. As such this book reveals the range and interests of the brachiopod specialists, which in their different ways demand expertise with high resolution electron microscopy and palaeoceanography.

The thematic structure certainly provides a useful structure, but this book has a more serious drawback which is simply for the most part the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Related articles in Geological Magazine:

Heavy minerals solve structural and stratigraphic problems in Ordovician strata of the western Irish Caledonides
MARIA A. MANGE, JOHN F. DEWEY, and DAVID T. WRIGHT
Geological Magazine 2003 140: 25-30. [Abstract] [Full Text]  





JOURNAL HOME HELP CONTACT PUBLISHER SUBSCRIBE ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 2009 by Cambridge University Press (CUP)