GLY 808
Advanced Micropaleontology
3
Course Description
Definition and practical value of micropaleontology; Historical review of micropaleontology Development of Commercial Micropaleontology.
Course Outline
Definition and practical value of micropaleontology; Historical review of micropaleontology Development of Commercial Micropaleontology; Physical; Chemical and Biological factors of the non-marine and marine environments and their effects on micro-organisms; Environmental distribution of micro-organisms; Evolutionary and phylogenetic relationships within groups of micro-fossils; Ecology and paleoecological relationships or living morphological (particularly diagnostic) features of biostratigraphically and paleoecologically important taxa of foraminifera and ostracoda