Numerous animal groups, whether primitive or advanced, support or protect their bodies by the growth of mineralized tissues. This monumental, two-volume reference work surveys the patterns, processes, and evolutionary trends of biomineralization throughout the animal kingdom from the perspective of the world's leading experts. It presents the reader with a synthesis of existing information, as well as results, previously in published on such aspects as processes of biomineralization, biomechanics, environmental and biological controls, microstructure and mineralogy, geological applications and evolutionary trends. The work is divided into two volumes. The first presents the text plus a unified glossary and atlas of skeletal microstructure, including all descriptive terms of skeletal microstructure used since 1801. These terms are defined using a standard reference terminology compiled by the authors of the text. Volume 1 also has a comprehensive bibliography of skeletal biomineralization with an accompanying subject index.
Volume 2 is an Atlas of skeletal biomineralization, with 200 scanning electron micrographs of skeletal microstructures in all major invertebrate and vertebrate groups. Both volumes are extensively indexed. This book should be of interest to palaeontologist, zoologists, evolutionary biologists.
- ISBN10 0442006675
- ISBN13 9780442006679
- Publish Date April 1991 (first published December 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 November 2010
- Publish Country NL
- Publisher Springer
- Imprint Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 700
- Language English