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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Introduction to the Study of Palæontological Botany
John Hutton Balfour
123 pages~2 hr 27 min read32 chapters$4.99
A plant that turned to stone millions of years ago still has a story, if you know how to read it. John Hutton Balfour explains how fossil plants are preserved, sliced, and identified, and which living orders they belong to. He sets the fossiliferous rocks in order and gives the beginner a method. Learn to name the leaves in the rock.
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Inside this book
32 chapters
- 1INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF PALÆONTOLOGICAL BOTANY
- 2PREFACE.
- 3TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- 4LIST OF WOODCUTS.
- 5PALÆONTOLOGICAL BOTANY.
- 6Determination of Fossil Plants.
- 7Mode of Preservation of Fossil Plants.
- 8Examination of the Structure of Fossil Plants.
- 9Fossiliferous Rocks.
- 10Natural Orders to which Fossil Plants belong.
- 11Periods of Vegetation among Fossil Plants.
- 12FLORA OF THE PRIMARY OR PALÆOZOIC PERIOD.
- 13Reign of Acrogens.
- 14Flora of the Carboniferous Epoch.
- 15Flora of the Permian Epoch.
- 16FOSSIL FLORA OF THE SECONDARY OR MESOZOIC PERIOD.
- 17Reign of Gymnosperms.
- 18Flora of the Trias and Lias Epochs.
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