Fossil Plants as Tests of Climate Being the Sedgwick Essay Prize for the Year 1892 1st Edition by Albert Charles Seward ISBN 110800427X 978-1108004275
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ISBN 10: 110800427X
ISBN 13: 978-1108004275
Author: Albert Charles Seward
The Sedgwick Prize for the best essay on a geological subject was instituted in memory of Adam Sedgwick, the geologist who introduced Darwin to geology in walking tours of north Wales, but later opposed his theories. One of its most eminent winners was A. C. Seward (1863–1941), then a young lecturer in botany at Cambridge. He combined the study of botany with geology in his research on what the age and location of fossilised flora can reveal about the climates of different geological periods. The author of the standard early twentieth-century textbook in the field, Fossil Plants for Students of Botany and Geology (1898–1919), he served as Professor of Botany at Cambridge, Master of Downing College and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. This Sedgwick Prize essay sets out the state of knowledge in the field in 1892 and was the foundation of a lifetime’s work in palaeobotany.
Table of contents:
Chapter I.
HISTORICAL SKETCH.
Chapter II.
PLANT DISTRIBUTION.
Dependence of distribution on geographical conditions; the height of land above sea-level and its effect on plant distribution; the nature of the soil as a factor in plant distribution
Chapter III.
PLANTS AND LOW TEMPERATURES: ARCTIC VEGETATION.
Greenland; Grinnell Land; Alaska; Russian Lapland
Chapter IV.
THE INFLUENCE OF EXTERNAL CONDITIONS UPON THE MACROSCOPIC AND MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURES OF PLANTS.
Habit and size of plants in relation to climate; leaves, their form, position and structure; the minute structure of leaves and its relation to external conditions; water plants; acclimatisa-tion and naturalisation; minute anatomy of fossil plants
Chapter V.
ANNUAL RINGS IN RECENT AND FOSSIL PLANTS.
Chapter VI.
ARCTIC FOSSIL PLANTS,
Devonian and Lower Carboniferous; Upper Carboniferous; Jurassic; Cretaceous; Tertiary and Quaternary
Chapter VII.
CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD.
Glossopteris flora; India; Africa; Australia; Tasmania; Boulder beds
Chapter VIII.
PLEISTOCENE PLANTS AND CONCLUSION
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