DEEP TIME BIOGEOMORPHOLOGY: THE CO-EVOLUTION OF LIFE AND SEDIMENTS

IF 1.5 4区地球科学 Q2 GEOLOGY

Palaios Pub Date : 2022-06-28 DOI:10.2110/palo.2022.029

N. Davies, W. McMahon, Anthony P. Shillito, Ben J. Slater

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Amongst all the disciplines in Earth Sciences, paleontology and sedimentary geology share a particularly striking and complicated frontier. On the one hand, some of the topics that they encompass are apparently separated by huge gulfs in methods and expertise: multiple degrees of separation need to be counted to get from, say, molecular phylogeny to sediment diagenesis, or paleophysiology to sequence stratigraphy. Yet there are arguably further areas where the boundary between the subjects is far more porous, consisting of sub-disciplines that refuse to be pigeon-holed and instead demand consensus between paleontologists and sedimentary geologists. This hazy border zone is the natural territory of PALAIOS, the remit of which is to emphasize ‘‘ the impact of life on Earth’s history as recorded in the paleontological and sedimentological records ’’ , and which has previously published seminal advances in topics such as ichnology, taphonomy, and carbonate sedimentology. Recognizing this, this ﬁrst of two thematic sets in the journal, which seek to explore how the sedimentary rock record has chronicled ancient life and sediment interactions, might seem unnecessary. Yet what makes these collected papers distinct is that they defy classiﬁcation within any particular sub-discipline: rather these are either ‘paleontological’ papers that pay additional attention to sedimentological context or ‘sedimentological’ papers that emphasize the importance of life in sedimentary environments. In each instance they demonstrate the potential to understand much more

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深层生物地貌学:生命与沉积物的共同演化

在地球科学的所有学科中，古生物学和沉积地质学有着特别引人注目和复杂的前沿。一方面，它们所涵盖的一些主题在方法和专业知识上显然被巨大的鸿沟所分隔：从分子系统发育到沉积物成岩作用，或从古生理学到层序地层学，都需要计算多个分离度。然而，可以说，还有一些领域的主题之间的边界要多孔得多，这些领域由拒绝被搁置的子学科组成，而是需要古生物学家和沉积地质学家之间达成共识。这片朦胧的边界地带是PALAIOS的自然领地，其职责是强调“古生物学和沉积学记录中记录的生命对地球历史的影响”，该地区此前曾发表过遗迹学、埋藏学和碳酸盐沉积学等主题的开创性进展。认识到这一点，该杂志上的两个主题集中的第一个试图探索沉积岩记录如何记录古代生命和沉积物相互作用，这似乎没有必要。然而，这些收集到的论文的独特之处在于，它们挑战了任何特定子学科的分类：相反，这些论文要么是额外关注沉积学背景的“古生物学”论文，要么是强调生命在沉积环境中重要性的“沉积学”论文。在每一个例子中，他们都展示了理解更多的潜力

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Palaios 地学-地质学

CiteScore

2.80

自引率

12.50%

发文量

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： PALAIOS is a monthly journal, founded in 1986, dedicated to emphasizing the impact of life on Earth''s history as recorded in the paleontological and sedimentological records. PALAIOS disseminates information to an international spectrum of geologists and biologists interested in a broad range of topics, including, but not limited to, biogeochemistry, ichnology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, paleoceanography, sedimentology, stratigraphy, geomicrobiology, paleobiogeochemistry, and astrobiology. PALAIOS publishes original papers that emphasize using paleontology to answer important geological and biological questions that further our understanding of Earth history. Accordingly, manuscripts whose subject matter and conclusions have broader geologic implications are much more likely to be selected for publication. Given that the purpose of PALAIOS is to generate enthusiasm for paleontology among a broad spectrum of readers, the editors request the following: titles that generate immediate interest; abstracts that emphasize important conclusions; illustrations of professional caliber used in place of words; and lively, yet scholarly, text.