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Microfossils

	Microfossils

 
Howard A. Armstrong and Martin D. Brasier, 2005, Blackwell Publishing, Malden, 296 p. (Softcover, US $69.96) ISBN: 0-632-05279-1.

This textbook is the second edition of a book written 25 years ago by Martin Brasier (Brasier, 1980). The new edition has been updated, but it retains many of the characteristics that made the first edition a success. The book is divided into four parts of similar length and comprises a brief preface, 21 chapters, an appendix on methods of extraction of microfossils, a systematic index, and a general index.

The primary motivation behind the writing of this edition is the same as that of the first: "to provide a manual for somebody with little micropalaeontological background working at the microscope" (p. vii). It also would work well as a textbook in one-semester course in micropaleontology. The authors stress that "Morphology and classification lie at the core of the book" (p. vii). While this is true, the book presents a lot of other kinds of information as well, some of it almost in the format of case studies. This material would go a long way toward making an otherwise taxonomically based micropaleontology course more palatable to the general student who does not intend to become a practicing micropaleontologist.

The first part of the book, entitled "Applied Micropalaeontology," has five chapters. The Introduction (chapter 1) explains what microfossils are and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

ROGER L. KAESLER¹

¹ Department of Geology University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045