... workforce in the offices ofthe Inspectors General The DOC OIG is a member of CIGIE, and the Act authorizes interagency funding of CIGIE and requires that any department, agency, or entity ofthe executive ... by subtracting the number of people counted in the census from the number of people measured in the survey and then dividing by the estimate ofthe total population according to the survey A net ... detailed description of these outcomes and their measures can be found in the Census section ofthe Department ofCommerce Budget 2011 Actual Objective 14: Improve understanding ofthe U.S economy,...
... Use of local sources of energy The shorter the distance between the power station and the user, the smaller the amount of energy lost in the network/distribution line Over larger distances the ... for others Another important aspect to address is to reduce the loss of resources during production, the construction process and throughout the life ofthe completed building The re-use of materials ... taken care of at their original level of quality, rather than downcycled Reduction ofthe use of raw materials in the production process Increased exploitation of smaller sources of raw materials...
... considers the biotas in their ecologic context, from their diversification to the development of planktonic, level-bottom, reef, hardground, and deep-water communities RADIATION The theme of radiation ... aspects of their ecology are discussed within analyses of particular communities Not all the views expressed in this book are in agreement, nor should they be We hope that comparison ofthe facts, ... 13); how the Early Cambrian biota changed the quality of seawater, thereby allowing the radiation of diverse phototrophic communities (Zhuravlev— chapter 8; Burzin et al.— chapter 10); how the appearance...
... 1995) The problem of relating the two scales is complicated by the fact that the base ofthe Tommotian was taken as the base ofthe Cambrian at 570 Ma in Harland et al 1990 Since then, the Nemakit-Daldynian ... select the “best” study from several on the same unit have included the number of sites, the scatter ofthe data, the magnetic tests, and the pole position relative to other poles ofthe same ... revision to the age ofthe base ofthe Cambrian period and other early Paleozoic stratigraphic boundaries; and, of course, the great interest in the transition from the late Precambrian to the Cambrian...
... Certainly, there are problems, such as the position of some blocks or the evolution ofthe Innuitian Belt in the Canadian Arctic, which still await solution There is no general agreement on the paleogeographic ... Shan, northern Pamir) structures, the formation of which was closely related to numerous Precambrian microcontinents The appearance ofthe belt was a result ofthe tectonic development of several ... on the Gondwana margins facing the Panthalassa Ocean They include the volcanic arcs of North China, southeastern Australia, Antarctica, the Cordillera of Chile and Argentina, and possibly the...
... crystalline rocks ofthe craton were uplifted and eroded, presumably as bulging ofthe crust and transgression ofthe platform proceeded Comparison ofthe 87Sr/ 86Sr record ofthe Ediacarian-Cambrian ... thermal relaxation ofthe crust following the initial rifting of Rodinia in the Riphean, followed either by renewed phases of rifting (Laurentia, Baltica) or by the development of foreland basins ... in the stratigraphic column, the distribution of these grazing traces has been related to the incidence of event sands, such as turbidites, which cast and preserve the delicate top tier of the...
... the Cambrian, the isotopic record suggests the unique nature ofthe period On the basis of strontium and carbon isotopic studies, the tectonism of Rodinia, especially that related to the Brasiliano–Pan-African ... their criticism and comments, which greatly improved the work The English was checked by G Häkli This work was supported by the Geological Survey of Finland and the Department of Geology ofthe ... zone the Varangerian-Sinian Glacial Zone, on the basis ofthe ages ofthe glacial deposits, and suggested that the zone appears to continue to Mato Grosso, Argentina, probably to Uruguay, southern...
... represents the base ofthe Uratanna sequence in the Arrowie Basin In the Stansbury Basin, depending on location, the base ofthe Mount Terrible Formation is in the transgressive systems tract ofthe ... remains for subaerial erosion at the top of sequence in the northern part ofthe Thorntonia region, at the top ofthe Thorntonia Limestone At the Ardmore Inlier in the Burke River Structural Belt, ... fossil–bearing sandstones ofthe upper Uratanna Formation or at the base ofthe Parachilna Formation in the Arrowie Basin (Mount and McDonald 1992) The boundary is placed at the base ofthe Wangkonda Formation...
... DISCUSSION The Cambrian represents a critical point in the development of nearly all biofabrics Near the base ofthe Cambrian, there was a significant shift in the nature of sedimentary fabrics From then ... from bioturbation and the production of shell beds are a fruitful area for future research The effects ofthe initiation of vertical bioturbation and the development ofthe infaunal habitat, ... distributions that are tied directly to the stratigraphic distribution ofthe organism However, commonly, the range ofthe biofabric will be less than that ofthe actual organism For example, articulate...
... Cambrian interval (from the base ofthe proavus Zone to the base ofthe lindstromi Zone) The global correlation of these stratigraphic units is given by Zhuravlev (1995) for the Early Cambrian and ... Together these fluctuations may serve as an approximation to the structure ofthe entire biota, which is expressed in the specialization and degree of competitive interaction The values of these ... extinction The strength of an external “kick” (extrinsic factor) needed for the destruction of a system is indicative ofthe stability ofthe system (Robertson 1993) Even if fluctuations of abiotic...
... million years Then, near the base ofthe Tommotian, and in remarkable parallel with the Cambrian explosion of large organisms, a whole range of complex new forms are introduced, and the rate of evolutionary ... crustaceans and their bear- ing on the interpretation of fossil forms Transactions ofthe Royal Society of Edinburgh (Earth Sciences) 76 : 103–113 Gould, S J 1985 The paradox ofthe first tier: ... ecological theory for the sudden origin of multicellular life in the late Precambrian Proceedings ofthe National Academy of Sciences, USA 70 : 1486 – 1489 Stanley, S M 1976 Ideas on the timing of metazoan...
... typical of deltaic areas In the prograde delta-front sequence ofthe Chapel Island Formation ofthe Nemakit-Daldynian of Avalonia, the higher-energy environments show a preponderance of vertical ... 10.2.2) The shallow level-bottom community underwent signicant changes during the Cambrian (see tables 10.1 and 10.2) After the demise ofthe Tommotian Evolutionary Fauna by the end ofthe Early ... early as the middle Vendian (Redkinan) In the estuaries of Baltica, the bushy alga Eoholynia formed oating mats (Burzin 1996) Their remains accumulated on the pycnocline, where they were further...
... radiations ofthe Phanerozoic utive faunas effectively and trace the trends in the formation of taxa of higher rank: classes and subclasses Valentine (1992), in examining the macroevolution of phyla, ... external aspects— characteristics ofthe environment Both these kinds of aspects can be seen in the Ordovician radiation (Droser et al 1996) The pattern of their interaction is discussed in this ... FLOOR The faunas of hard sea floors always differ strongly in composition and number from those of soft sea floors There are two main types of hard sea floor, differing in their mechanism of formation...
... al 1994) The purpose of this chapter is to review the progressive colonization ofthe deep sea from the Precambrian to the Ordovician, that is, through the period of Cambrian radiation THE ENVIRONMENTAL ... Evidence of life at truly bathyal depths is largely absent during the Vendian, although records ofthe trace fossil Planolites within the deep-sea turbidite sequence ofthe South Stack Formation ofthe ... diverse than those of sandy areas (Menzies et al 1973), whereas in these ancient seas, the absence of algae and the scarcity of large animals increased the survival possibilities ofthe detritivorous...
... cluster of protospongid character has been found at the base ofthe formation (basal chert) (Steiner et al 1993) The middle part ofthe formation bears a diverse fauna of complete specimens of hexactinellids, ... according to the reconstructed position of their soft tissues: the Ajacicyathida (Regulares) and the Archaeocyathida (Irregulares) In the Regulares (Debrenne et al 1990b), soft tissue lled the entire ... to the one observed on the top ofthe Recent Vesterisbanken Seamount in the Greenland Sea (Henrich et al 1992) Atdabanian rocks of northern Greenland (Sirius Passet) have yielded two genera of...
... surprising diversity of early cephalopods, most of which had become extinct by the end ofthe Late Cambrian, is consistent with the explosive record of other Late Cambrian mollusks However, the data are ... present at the end ofthe rectum The configuration ofthe digestive tract makes it difficult to reconstruct a metameric body and serially arranged dorsoventral muscles at the rear part ofthe body ... scars may be the result of migration of muscle attachment areas to the morphologically anterior part ofthe growing body However, this reconstruction, based on the inner structure of orthothecimorphs,...
... 16.2) Three of these—Paterinida, Lingulida, and Acrotretida—appeared during the Early Cambrian, the Siphonotretida appeared in the Middle Cambrian, and the Discinida arose at the end ofthe Cambrian ... transported with the food, which is the major source of PO43Ϫ ions for shell formation The appearance of mineralized skeletons at the advent ofthe Cambrian was due to a unique combination of environmental ... M 1969 The food of articulate brachiopods Journal of Paleontology 43 : 976 –985 McKerrow, W S., ed 1978 TheEcologyof Fossils Cambridge: MIT Press Nielsen, C 1991 The development ofthe brachiopod...
... measures of ecologic diversity, and presents an overview ofthe ecologic evolution of these fossils Recent interest in the Cambrian radiation has been fueled by the redescription of Cambrian soft-bodied ... 1995) Ofthe “economic” aspects ofecology (sensu Eldredge 1989), inferences on feeding behavior are most important because these may indicate the role of trilobites in the trophic structure of ... trilobites The convergence of a set of morphologic and occurrence features (particularly related to the form ofthe eye) among members of several different clades permitted the recognition of a generalized...
... analysis of feeding strategies However, the conclusions therein may need modification in light ofthe discovery of trunk gnathobases in the anomalocaridids (Hou et al 1995) The lobopodous members ofthe ... component of all these faunas Orsten and Similar Deposits Dissolution of orsten (“stinkstone”) nodules in the Agnostus pisiformis level ofthe Alum Shale of southern Sweden and northern Germany ... and an “others” group) Analyses of this sort rely on knowledge not only ofthe overall morphology ofthe animal but also ofthe limbs, and even in Burgess Shale taxa this knowledge is often incomplete...
... Echinoderms ofthe Cambrian remained a modest component ofthe biota until favorable environmental shifts provided the catalyst for rapid ecologic expansion as part ofthe Ordovician radiation of metazoans ... slightly farther north into the tropics, then gradually converged (Golonka et al 1994) Baltica and Laurentia collided with the closing ofthe Iapetus during the Middle Ordovician The reconstructions ... achieve the success of crinoids Early Ordovician cylindrical rhombiferans have brachioles arising from the top ofthe theca, similar to those of Gogia and as such probably represent a continuation of...