Special Publications

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Current Special Publications

* NEW * TMS002 - Deep-Time Perspectives on Climate Change: Marrying the Signal from Computer Models and Biological Proxies

Edited by M Williams, A M Haywood, J Gregory & D N Schmidt; 600 pages.

TMS Member price £47.50

This is the second special publication in the new TMS series published by the Geological Society Publishing House, 5 December, 2007.

This book unites climate modelling, palaeoceanography and palaeontology to address fundamental events in the climate history of Earth over the past 600 million years. Understanding the 'tipping points’ that have lead to rapid changes in the Earth’s climate is vitally important with the realization that humans modify global climate. In an effort to better understand past and future climate change, general circulation models have become the forerunners of attempts to simulate future climate. Although extraordinarily sophisticated, they remain imperfect tools that require ‘grounding’ in geological data. In this, the study of past major climate transitions like the Palaeozoic icehouse worlds and the extreme greenhouse of the Cretaceous are invaluable. Both the mechanisms that forced changes in the Earth's climate as well as the proxies that track these changes are discussed. The central message of the book is that general circulation models tested with geological data in an iterative 'ground truth' process provide the best estimates of the Earth's ancient climate.

TMS001 - Recent Developments in Applied Biostratigraphy

Edited by A. J. Powell & J. B. Riding. 256 Pages.

TMS Member price £42.50 / $77.00; GSL Member price £51.00 / $92.00

This is the first special publication in the new TMS series published by the Geological Society Publishing House, 25 November, 2005.

The application of biostratigraphy to hydrocarbon exploration and development has become increasingly important both scientifically and economically. The demand for higher stratigraphical resolution in field development studies has resulted in the utilization of new approaches. The aim of this volume is to encourage an exchange of ideas and to seed new research initiatives particularly within integrated multidisciplinary teams. The papers are divided into four main themes which cover a broad range of modern applications of biostratigraphy. The first three themes are: UK North Sea field development; outcrop analogues; and international exploration and development. The final section discusses new methodologies, such as the application of correspondence analysis and multivariate correlation of wells, and palynological processing techniques applicable to the wellsite.

History of TMS Special Publications

The first Special Publication of TMS (then the BMS) was A Stratigraphical Index of British Ostracoda (edited by Ray Bate and Eric Robinson) which appeared in 1978 and was published as a Special Issue of Geological Journal. Subsequent volumes have been published as a series, commencing with the Stratigraphical Atlas of Fossil Foraminifera (edited by Graham Jenkins and John Murray) in 1980. Since then, ten further Special Publications have been published for the BMS by Ellis Horwood Ltd. and from 1990 to 2001 three were published by Chapman Hall/Kluwer. During this time, stratigraphical indices or atlases have been produced for ostracods, foraminifera (2 editions), nannofossils, conodonts and dinoflagellate cysts, as well as a number of thematic volumes. Our Special Publications are now being handled by the Geological Society Publishing House.

The following volumes can still be purchased direct from Springer (was Kluwer):

• Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy Paul R. Bown. Hardbound, ISBN 0-412-78970-1, August 1998. Price: 92.50 GBP
• Early Evolutionary History of Planktonic Foraminifera M.K. BouDagher-Fadel, F.T. Banner, J.E. Whittaker, M.D. Simmons. Hardbound, ISBN 0-412-75820-2, November 1997. Price: 107.50 GBP
• Micropalaeontology and Hydrocarbon Exploration in the Middle East M.D. Simmons. Hardbound, ISBN 0-412-42770-2, June 1994 Price: 134.50 GBP
• A Stratigraphic Index of Dinoflagellate Cysts A.J. Powell. Hardbound, ISBN 0-412-36280-5, November 1991. Price: 168.50 GBP
• Ostracoda and Global Events R. Whatley, C. Maybury, Hardbound, ISBN 0-412-36300-3, July 1990. Price: 191.50 GBP

The following volumes are out of print.

• Stratigraphical Atlas of Fossil Foraminifera (Second Edition) D.G. Jenkins and J.W. Murray (editors), 1989. 593 pp. ISBN 0-13-852187-5. OUT OF PRINT
• Micropalaeontology of Carbonate Environments M.B. Hart (editor), 1987. 296 pp. ISBN 0-13-584137-2. OUT OF PRINT
• Nannofossils and their Applications J.A. Crux and S.E. van Heck (editors), 1989. 356 pp. ISBN 0-13-609215-2. OUT OF PRINT
• Northwest European Micropalaeontology and Palynology D.J. Batten and M.C. Keen (editors), 1989. 356 pp. ISBN 0-13-626821-8. OUT OF PRINT

Field Guides

Note: These field guides were produced for the pre-and post-Symposium field excursions but are all now out of print. Please try appropriate libraries or second hand book dealers for copies.

• 1. Mesozoic and Cenozoic Stratigraphical Micropalaeontology of the Dorset Coast and Isle of Wight, Southern England - edited by A.R. Lord and P.R. Bown (produced for the European Microplaeontological Colloquium of 1987)
• 2. The Lower Palaeozoic of the Northern Welsh Borderland and South Wales D.J. Siveter, 1988. 47 pp.
• 3. The Jurassic and Cretaceous of Eastern England R.H. Bate and I.P. Wilkinson, 1988. 71 pp.
• 4. Cretaceous Ostracoda of the Weald D.J. Horne, 1988. 42 pp.
• 5. An Introductory Guide to the Neogene and Quaternary of East Anglia for Ostracod workers A.R. Lord, D.J. Horne and J.E. Robinson, 1988. 11 pp.
• 6. The Mesozoic and Tertiary of Southern England: the Dorset Coast and Isle of Wight M.C. Keen, A.R. Lord, R.C. Whatley, 1988. 79 pp.
• 7. Recent Freshwater Ostracoda of the Lake District D.J. Horne, 1988. 28 pp.
• 8. Recent and Quaternary Ostracoda of the Firth of Clyde, S.W. Scotland J.E. Whittaker, 1988. 50 pp.
• 9. St. Davids and Recent Marine and Estuarine Ostracoda of the Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire Coasts R.C. Whatley and C.A. Maybury, 1988. 8 pp.
• 10. In the footsteps of T.R. Jones: Lower Palaeozoic of Shropshire and the Post-Palaeozoic of Avon, Dorset and Kent D.J. Siveter & A.R. Lord (Editors). Field Guide for the Thirteenth International Symposium on Ostracoda, Chatham 1997. 64pp