Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9463130 | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 2005 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
This new awareness which geobiology represents has begun to produce a whole host of approaches that causes researchers in the laboratory of the molecular or microbiologist to interact with those from the laboratory of the geochemist as they are led on a field trip by the palaeontologist exploring some fundamental issue in the history of life. Such interactions are not only important for considerations of life on Earth, but provide a framework for the search for life that may have once existed on other planetary bodies, such as Mars. Data from deep time and hence the fossil record plays a central role in such research, and thus geobiology opens up vast new research opportunities for palaeontology.
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Authors
David J. Bottjer,