Anthony Hallam

Anthony Hallam called Tony Hallam ( born December 26, 1933, Leicester ) is a British geologist and paleontologist.

Life

Hallam studied at Cambridge University (St. John 's College ), where he graduated in 1955 made ​​in geology. In 1959, he was there his doctorate under William Joscelyn Arkell over limestone - shale interbedded in the Lower Jurassic ( Lias Blue ) of southern England, where he in the UK anwandte first trace fossil analysis. 1958 to 1967 he was a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, then at the University of Oxford, where he was a Fellow of New College, and from 1977 Lapworth Professor at the University of Birmingham. From 1999 he was a professor emeritus.

He is the author of several popular science books and for example of mass extinction. He has been dealing with the mass extinction at the end of the Triassic and early Jurassic period. It especially deals with the environment ( palaeoecology ) of the Jurassic period and their interpretation in deposits. For example, he examined the sea level fluctuations in the Jurassic period. He also previously worked in the 1950s on Gryphaea, which he partially worked with Stephen Jay Gould.

Honors

Writings

  • Phanerozoic sea level changes, Columbia University Press 1992
  • P. Duff, EK Walton: Cyclic sedimentation, Elsevier 1967
  • An outline of phanerozoic biogeography, Oxford University Press 1994
  • A Revolution in the Earth Sciences: From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1973
  • Publisher: Atlas of palaeobiogeography, Elsevier 1973
  • Facies interpretation and the stratigraphic record, Freeman 1981
  • Jurassic Environments, Cambridge University Press 1975
  • Publisher with MG Audley -Charles: Gondwana and Tethys, Oxford University Press 1988
  • Publisher: Patterns of evolution as illustrated by the fossil record, Elsevier 1977
  • Great Geological Controversies, Oxford University Press 1989
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