Evolution im Spiegel von Landschaft und architektur

Zeit wurde Raum

authored by

Volker Storch, Hansjörg Küster

Abstract

Since three billions of years, living beings form carbohydrates and carbonates. They were deposited as sediments forming raw material deposits and mountains. They are characteristic to manifold landscapes: carstic limestone hills, areas of coal mining, mires, coastal areas. Remnants of former organisms are conserved as fossils in sediments. Fossils allow a reconstruction of biological evolution, the history of life on earth, and a relative stratigraphy of geological deposits. Forming sediments from remnants of organisms is an irreversible process characteristic of living nature.

Organisation(s)

Geobotany Section

External Organisation(s)

Heidelberg University

Type

Article

Journal

Biologie in Unserer Zeit

Volume

39

Pages

206-214

No. of pages

9

ISSN

0045-205X

Publication date

17.06.2009

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1002/biuz.200910395 (Access: Closed)