Overview
- Summarizes hydrocarbon seep functioning, their evolution, and important seep occurrences
- Explains the geological and evolutionary aspects of ancient chemoautotrophic communities
- Discusses the nature of hydrocarbon seep deposits and how to recognize them
Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology (TGBI, volume 53)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Seep Biota
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Front Matter
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Fossil Seep Ecosystems
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Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Andrzej Kaim is Associate Professor at the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. His research interests include the early ontogeny and phylogeny of mollusks, in particular gastropods, and the recovery and paleodiversity patterns of benthic marine faunas after the Permian-Triassic extinction event. In the last 25 years he has worked on the origin and evolution of chemoautotrophic communities studying material from a variety of ancient hydrocarbon seeps, ranging from the Arctic to the Antarctic and the U.S. Pacific Coast to Japan.
Dr. J. Kirk Cochran is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, New York. His research interests include the use of isotope systems as tracers for processes in modern aquatic environments, including the coastal and open ocean, lakes, rivers and groundwater. He has also used isotope geochemistry as a tool for deciphering ancient marine environments, including the Western Interior Seaway of North America and hydrocarbon seeps.
Dr. Neil H. Landman is Curator Emeritus in the Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. His interests include the evolution of externally shelled cephalopods, especially ammonites, the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary event, and the Upper Cretaceous Western Interior of North America. In the last 20 years, he has worked together with colleagues and students to study ancient hydrocarbon seeps.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ancient Hydrocarbon Seeps
Editors: Andrzej Kaim, J. Kirk Cochran, Neil H. Landman
Series Title: Topics in Geobiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05623-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05621-5Published: 31 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-05623-9Published: 30 August 2022
Series ISSN: 0275-0120
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 687
Number of Illustrations: 58 b/w illustrations, 71 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biogeosciences, Paleoecology, Evolutionary Biology, Geochemistry