Preston Cloud
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American earth scientist, biogeologist, cosmologist, and paleontologist
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Preston Cloud's Degrees
- PhD Geology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Geology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Geology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Preston Ercelle Cloud, Jr. was an American earth scientist, biogeologist, cosmologist, and paleontologist. He served in the United States Navy , and led several field explorations of the U.S. Geological Survey. In academia, he was a member of the faculty of Harvard University, University of Minnesota, University of California, Los Angeles, and lastly University of California, Santa Barbara. He was best known for his work on the geologic time scale and the origin of life on Earth, and as a pioneering ecologist and environmentalist. His works on the significance of Cambrian fossils in the 1940s led to the development of the concept "Cambrian explosion," for which he coined the phrase "eruptive evolution."
Preston Cloud's Published Works
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- Paleoecological Significance of the Banded Iron-Formation (1973) (504)
- Atmospheric and hydrospheric evolution on the primitive earth. Both secular accretion and biological and geochemical processes have affected earth's volatile envelope. (1968) (465)
- Significance of the Gunflint (Precambrian) Microflora (1965) (314)
- A working model of the primitive Earth (1972) (274)
- Beginnings of biospheric evolution and their biogeochemical consequences (1976) (265)
- Stromatolite morphogenesis—progress and problems (1979) (188)
- Proterozoic stromatolite zonation (1969) (164)
- The Ediacarian Period and Syste: Metazoa Inherit the Earth (1982) (132)
- Physical Limits of Glauconite Formation (1955) (101)
- Giant stromatolites and associated vertical tubes from the upper Proterozoic Noonday Dolomite, Death Valley region, eastern California (1974) (94)
- The oxygen cycle. (1970) (86)
- SOME PROBLEMS AND PATTERNS OF EVOLUTION EXEMPLIFIED BY FOSSIL INVERTEBRATES (1948) (73)
- Geology of Saipan, Mariana Islands; Part 4, Submarine topography and shoal-water ecology (1959) (69)
- Microbiotas of the banded iron formations. (1968) (65)
- The Ellenburger group of central Texas (1948) (64)
- Proterozoic Age of the Bambui Group in Brazil (1973) (64)
- Terebratuloid Brachiopoda of the Silurian and Devonian (1942) (63)
- Proterozoic eucaryotes from eastern california. (1969) (62)
- Geology of Saipan, Mariana Islands; Part 1, General geology (1956) (60)
- CORRELATION OF THE ORDOVICIAN FORMATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA (1954) (59)
- Oasis in Space: Earth History from the Beginning (1988) (56)
- Preliminary report on geology and marine environments of Onotoa Atoll, Gilbert Islands (1952) (50)
- Pseudofossils: A Plea for Caution (1973) (47)
- Reproductive structures and taxonomic affinities of some nannofossils from the gunflint iron formation. (1968) (45)
- Notes on stromatolites (1942) (43)
- ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF THE GUNFLINT MICROFLORA: PRELIMINARY RESULTS. (1965) (42)
- Facies Relationships of Organic Reefs (1952) (41)
- Algal and cryptalgal structures and platform environments of the late pre-Phanerozoic Noonday Dolomite, eastern California (1978) (40)
- Environment of calcium carbonate deposition west of Andros Island, Bahamas (1962) (39)
- On microbial contaminants, micropseudofossils, and the oldest records of life (1979) (36)
- The works of living social insects as pseudofossils and the age of the oldest known metazoa. (1980) (35)
- Behaviour of calcium carbonate in sea water (1962) (34)
- Phanerozoic-Cryptozoic and Related Transitions: New Evidence (1966) (30)
- Calcite-impregnated defluidization structures in littoral sands of mono lake, california. (1980) (29)
- Prokaryotic algae associated with Australian proterozoic stromatolites. (1972) (27)
- Sporulation and Ultrastructure in a Late Proterozoic Cyanophyte: Some Implications for Taxonomy and Plant Phylogeny (1975) (27)
- Ultrastructure and geologic relations of some two-aeon old nostocacean algae from northeastern Minnesota (1972) (27)
- Entropy, materials, and posterity (1977) (25)
- The precambrian. (1971) (25)
- New microbial fossils from ∼1.3 billion‐year‐old rocks of Eastern California (1979) (25)
- Earliest Phanerozoic or latest Proterozoic fossils from the Arabian Shield (1979) (24)
- New Pre-Paleozoic Nannofossils from the Stoer Formation (Torridonian), Northwest Scotland (1971) (24)
- Nonprevalence of biochemical fossils in kerogen from pre-Phanerozoic sediments. (1975) (23)
- New microbial fossils from 2 Gyr old rocks in Northern Michigan (1980) (23)
- A new chroococcacean alga from the proterozoic of queensland. (1969) (22)
- STRATIGRAPHY OF THE UPPER CAMBRIAN, LLANO UPLIFT, TEXAS (1947) (22)
- Traces of Animal Life from 620-Million-Year-Old Rocks in North Carolina (1976) (21)
- Cosmos, Earth, and Man: A Short History of the Universe (1981) (20)
- Adventures in earth history (1970) (18)
- New Devonian fossils from Calhoun County, Illinois (1938) (18)
- New gastropods and trilobites critical in the correlation of Lower Ordovician rocks (1947) (17)
- Early Upper Cambrian Faunas of Central Montana. Geological Society of America Special Papers, Number 54.Christina Lochman , Donald Duncan (1946) (16)
- Paleoecology; retrospect and prospect, [Part 6] of [Stumm, E. C., ed.] Symposium on fifty years of paleontology (1959) (16)
- WOODRING CONFERENCE ON MAJOR BIOLOGIC INNOVATIONS AND THE GEOLOGIC RECORD. (1961) (16)
- Geology of the Sierra Diablo region, Texas, with special determinative studies of Permian fossils (1965) (15)
- Possible stratotype sequences for the basal Paleozoic in North America. (1973) (14)
- Beach Cusps: Response to Plateau's Rule? (1966) (14)
- DEVONIAN-MISSISSIPPIAN TRANSITION IN CENTRAL TEXAS (1957) (14)
- Conspicuous Features of Organic Reefs (1955) (14)
- Reflections on the beginnings of metazoan evolution (1986) (13)
- Notes on Recent brachiopods (1948) (13)
- Assemblages of Diminutive Brachiopods and their Paleoecological Significance (1948) (13)
- Microbiological Fractionation of the Hydrogen Isotopes (1958) (13)
- Trends, transitions, and events in cryptozoic history and their calibration: apropos recommendations by the subcommission on precambrian stratigraphy (1987) (13)
- Homeomorphy, and a remarkable illustration (1941) (12)
- Early Biogeochemical Systems (1980) (12)
- Vestiges of a beginning (1985) (12)
- The Geologic Systems (1964) (12)
- Trace fossils from the Flathead Sandstone, Fremont County, Wyoming, compared with early Cambrian forms from California and Australia (1973) (11)
- Surface micrography of lunar fines compared with tektites and terrestrial volcanic analogs (1971) (11)
- Earth history from the beginning (1988) (11)
- CHAIRMAN'S SUMMARY REMARKS (1965) (10)
- Aspects of Proterozoic biogeology (1983) (10)
- Conophyton in the Bambui Group: What Form and Age? (1973) (9)
- Resources and Man: A Study and Recommendations (1969) (9)
- Chapter 10 Banded Iron-Formation — A Gradualist's Dilemma (1983) (8)
- Bauxite deposits of the Anniston, Fort Payne, and Ashville areas, northeast Alabama (1966) (8)
- DEVONIAN ROCKS OF CENTRAL TEXAS (1947) (8)
- An International Year of The Biosphere? (1980) (7)
- Pre-Paleozoic Sediments and Their Significance for Organic Geochemistry (1969) (7)
- How life began (1982) (7)
- The 1949 Eruption of Ngauruhoe (1951) (6)
- Comment and Reply on ‘Are these the oldest metazoan trace fossils?’ COMMENT: Are the Medicine Peak Quartzite “dubiofossils” fluid-evasion tracks? (1983) (6)
- World's oldest animal traces (1978) (6)
- The Cenozoic Brachiopoda of Western North America. Publications of the University of California at Los Angeles in Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Volume 3.Leo George Hertlein , U. S. Grant IV. (1946) (6)
- Color patterns in Devonian terebratuloids (1941) (6)
- Lunar science and planetary history. (1970) (6)
- Chapter 9: Early Ordovician Sea in Central Texas (1957) (5)
- Earliest Phanerozoic or latest Proterozoic fossils from the Arabian Shield, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (1979) (5)
- Response : The Moon: Time of Appearance and Nearest Approach to Earth (1968) (5)
- Eocene Foraminifera from Guam, and their Implications. (1953) (5)
- Pteridinium and the precambrian-cambrian boundary. (1967) (4)
- Provisional correlation of selected Cenozoic sequences in the western and central Pacific (1956) (4)
- Earth Science Today. (1964) (4)
- Upper Ordovician of Central Texas (1953) (3)
- Is there intelligent life on earth? (1973) (3)
- Physical Limits of Glauconite Formation: COMMENT (1955) (3)
- Biogeochemical Evolution of the Ocean-Atmosphere System State of the Art Report (1982) (2)
- Cosmos, Earth, and man : a short history of the universe Cloud. (1978) (2)
- A New Earth History for Undergraduates (1988) (2)
- Preface [Symposium; Precambrian of North America] (1972) (2)
- Rubey conference on crustal evolution. (1974) (2)
- Geology and bauxite deposits of the Rock Run and Goshen Valley areas, northeast Alabama (1967) (2)
- Professor Martin Glaessner 1906–1989 (1990) (2)
- Studies in Analytical Geochemistry. (1964) (1)
- Papers in Marine Geology: Shepard Commemorative Volume. Robert L. Miller, Ed. Macmillan, New York, 1964. xx + 531 pp. Illus. $20 (1964) (1)
- Ordovician to Earliest Mississippian Rocks, Llano Region (1962) (1)
- How life began. (1986) (1)
- Terebratuloid Erachiopods of the Silurian and Devonian (1941) (1)
- A Worthy Successor (1988) (1)
- Major divisions of Earth history (1984) (1)
- Field Excursion No. 1, November 10-11, 1962: Geology of Llano Region and Austin Area (1962) (1)
- Adventures in earth history : being a volume of significant writings from original sources, on cosmology, geology, climatology, oceanography, organic evolution, and related topics of interest to students of earth history, from the time of Nicolaus Steno to the present (1970) (1)
- Fossils, Early Life, and Atmospheric History: Discussion (1965) (1)
- The Second Flowering of Geology. (1983) (1)
- Luminaries of the Albany Era: Beecher, Schuchert, and Hall (1987) (1)
- Geology of Africa: Geological Map of Africa . Prepared by UNESCO and the Association for African Geological Surveys. UNESCO, Paris, 1964 (available from UNESCO Publications Center, New York). 9 sheets and Explanatory Note (39 pages). Set, $55. (1964) (0)
- Letter to W.O. George from Preston E. Cloud, Jr. on 1951-04-20 (1951) (0)
- The stromatolite gymnosolen not a salinity index (1945) (0)
- Letter to Henryk B. Stenzel from Preston E. Cloud, Jr. on 1951-01-30 (1951) (0)
- Geologic Age Log, Amerada Petroleum Corporation, No. 1 Clarence Iverson, Williams Co., North Dakota (1953) (0)
- Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Preston E. Cloud, Jr. on 1957-11-26 (1957) (0)
- Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Preston E. Cloud, Jr. on 1951-11-14 (1951) (0)
- Response : Pteridinium and the Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary (1967) (0)
- Book Review:The Coevolution of Climate and Life. Stephen H. Schneider, Randi Londer (1985) (0)
- Gaia modified. (1988) (0)
- Book Review:The Chemical Evolution of the Atmosphere and Oceans. Heinrich D. Holland (1985) (0)
- Military Geology of Saipan, Mariana Islands. Volume 1: Introduction and Engineering Aspects (1955) (0)
- The Permian Reef Complex of the Guadalupe Mountains Region, Texas and New Mexico . A study in paleoecology. Norman D. Newell et al. W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, 1953. 236 pp. Illus. + plates. $7.50 (1954) (0)
- Organic Geochemistry. (1964) (0)
- Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Preston E. Cloud, Jr. on 1951-12-20 (1951) (0)
- Atlas and Glossary of Primary Sedimentary Structures. F. J. Pettijohn and Paul Edwin Potter. Translations into Spanish, French, and German by Jaun Carlos Riggi, Marie-Hélène Sachet, and Hans-Ulrich Schmincke. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1964. xvi + 370 pp. Illus. $14.75 (1965) (0)
- Letter to F.Stearns MacNeil from Preston E. Cloud, Jr. on 1958-05-12 (1958) (0)
- Book Review:The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler (1987) (0)
- Environmental Biogeochemistry. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry (ISEB) Arranged in Stockholm 1-5 June, 1981.R. Hallberg , Thomas Rosswall (1984) (0)
- Biogeochemistry and biogeology research projects (1973) (0)
- Book Review:Living Fossils. Casebooks in Earth Sciences. Niles Eldredge, Steven M. Stanley, R. N. Ginsburg (1985) (0)
- Surface micromorphology of lunar and terrestrial glasses (1971) (0)
- Origin and Evolution of Atmospheres and Oceans (1965) (0)
- The Sea off Southern California. A modern habitat of petroleum. K. O. Emery. Wiley, New York, 1960. xi + 366 pp. Illus. $12.50 (1960) (0)
- New Views on an Old Planet: Continental Drift and the History of the Earth.Tjeerd H. van AndelThe Story of the Earth.Peter Cattermole , Patrick Moore (1986) (0)
- Afican Natural Resources (1964) (0)
- The Intelligent Universe.Fred HoyleCosmic Ecology: The View from the Outside in.George A. Seielstad (1985) (0)
- Book Review:Nemesis: The Death-Star and Other Theories of Mass Extinction. Donald Goldsmith (1987) (0)
- CosmobiologyLife in the Universe. Proceedings of the Conference on Life in the Universe, Held at NASA Ames Research Center, June 19-20, 1979.John Billingham (1983) (0)
- The Geology of the U.S.S.R. A short outline. D. V. Nalivkin. Translated from the Russian by S. I. Tomkeieff. J. E. Richey, Translation Editor. Pergamon, New York, 1960. ix + 170 pp. 2 maps. $15 (1961) (0)
- Is Phyletic Gradualism a Straw Man (1989) (0)
- Microbial Mats: Stromatolites. Based on the Proceedings of the Integrated Approach to the Study of Microbial Mats, July 26-31, 1982.Yehuda Cohen , Richard W. Castenholz , Harlyn O. Halvorson (1985) (0)
- Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Preston E. Cloud, Jr. on 1951-04-20 (1951) (0)
- African Natural Resources: A Review of the Natural Resources of the African Continent . UNESCO, Paris; Columbia University Press, New York, 1963. 437 pp. $15. (1964) (0)
- Microbial Biogeochemistry J. E. Zajic (1970) (0)
- The Second Flowering of Geology (1982) (0)
- The Permian Reef Complex of the GuadalupeMountains Region, Texas and New Mexico. Astudy in paleoecology. Norman D. Newell et al.W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, 1953. 236 pp. Illus.+ plates. $7.50 (1954) (0)
- Geologic Evolution of Europe. Roland Brinkmann. Translated from the German by John E. Sanders. Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart; Hafner, New York, ed. 8 (condensed version of vol. 2), 1960. vi + 161 pp. Illus. $8.50 (1961) (0)
- The Project System in Grant Allocation. (1964) (0)
- History of Major Atmospheric Components: Discussion (1965) (0)
- Paleozoic Geology of Llano Region (1976) (0)
- Sedimentary sulphides (1981) (0)
- The Project System in Grant Allocation (1964) (0)
- Earth science and earth resources-A centenary salute to the U.S. Geological Survey: Introduction to the symposium. (1979) (0)
- Phosphorite sedimentation: phosphate deposits of the world. (1987) (0)
- Gaia Modified (1988) (0)
- Cities in the Seas. (1964) (0)
- Stromatolites [book review] (1977) (0)
- Geochemical Aspects of Atmospheric Evolution: Discussion (1965) (0)
- Book Review:The Dawn of Animal Life: A Biohistorical Study. Martin F. Glaessner (1985) (0)
- Book Review:Molecular Oxygen in Biology. Topics in Molecular Oxygen Research. O. Hayaishi (1976) (0)
- Book Review:Traces of Bygone Biospheres. A. V. Lapo, V. Purto (1984) (0)
- Beaches and Coasts. Cuchlaine A. M. King. Arnold, London; St Martin's Press, New York, 1959. xii + 403 pp. Illus. $14.50 (1960) (0)
- Cities in the Seas (1964) (0)
- Book Review:California Landscape: Origin and Evolution. California Natural History Guide, Volume 48. Mary Hill (1985) (0)
- Book Review:The Riddle of the Dinosaurs. John N. Wilford (1986) (0)
- Adventures in earth history : being a volume of significant writings from original sources, on cosmology, geology, climatology, oceanography, selected, edited, and with introductions by Preston Cloud (1970) (0)
- Russian roulette (1996) (0)
- Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Preston E. Cloud, Jr. on 1951-02-16 (1951) (0)
- Stromatolites: M.R. Walter (Editor), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1976, xi + 790 pp, Dfl. 259.00 (1977) (0)
- Government and the Climate for Science. (1969) (0)
- Geology: Stratigraphy and Sedimentation . By W. C. Krumbein and L. L. Sloss. Freeman, San Francisco, ed. 2, 1963. 676 pp. Illus. $10.50. (1964) (0)
- Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Preston E. Cloud, Jr. on 1954-04-16 (1954) (0)
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