Re: Paleo-reconstruction maps

[NEIL CLARK <NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk>]

> >Wanted: current book and periodical sources which provide
> >paleo-reconstructions of landmasses during the Mesozoic.
> >Looking for continental positions through time, general 
topography,
> >coastline morphology, kinds of environments, climate zones, etc...
> >
> >--John Schneiderman ( dino@cwis.unomaha.edu )
> >  
> >
> >
> >
> You might be interested in the "Atlas of Mesozoic and Cenozoic 
Coastlines"
> by Alan G. Smith, David G. Smith, & Frian M. Funnell; Cambridge 
Univ. Press
> ISBN 0-521-45155-8.  It seems to cover the4 coastlines pretty well 
with some
> topography.  The is little if anything on environment or climet 
though.
> 

Another one might be the very expensive 'Atlas of Palaeogeography 
and Lithofacies' published by the Geological Society of London 
(memoir 13).  It deals solely with the palaeogeography of the British 
Isles though. (Authors are JCW Cope, JK Ingham and PF Rawson, 
1992).


Neil Clark
Curator of Palaeontology
Hunterian Museum
University of Glasgow
email: NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk

The first law of Geology is the law of supposition.
(Geological Howlers - ed. WDI Rolfe)