Abstract The Cambrian Period is the first period of the Phanerozoic Eon and witnessed the
explosive appearance of the metazoans, representing the beginning of the modern earth-life …

The Ediacaran–Cambrian (E–C) transition marks the most important geobiological
revolution of the past billion years, including the Earth's first crisis of macroscopic eukaryotic …

Ichnology is the study of traces created in the substrate by living organisms. This is the first
book to systematically cover basic concepts and applications in both paleobiology and …

Abstract The Neoproterozoic era (about 1,000 to 542 million years ago) was a time of
turbulent environmental change. Large fluctuations in the carbon cycle were associated with …

The geologically rapid appearance of fossils of modern animal phyla within Cambrian strata
is a defining characteristic of the history of life on Earth. However, temporal calibration of the …

Abstract The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition, which incorporates the radiation of animals,
lacks a robust global temporal and spatial framework, resulting in major uncertainty in the …

Abstract The Ediacaran Period follows the Cryogenian Period in the wake of a snowball
Earth glaciation and precedes the Cambrian Period with its rising tide of animal radiation. It …

The Cambrian diversification of animals was long thought to have begun with an explosive
phase at the start of the Tommotian Age. Recent stratigraphic discoveries, however, suggest …

As recognized already by Charles Darwin, animals are geobiological agents. Darwin
observed that worms aerate and mix soils on a massive scale, aiding in the decomposition …

Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …