Global Bio-Events A Critical Approach. Proceedings of the First International Meeting of the IGCP Project 216: “Global Biological Events in Earth History” / edited by Otto H. Walliser.

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Other Authors: Walliser, Otto H. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1986.
Edition:1st ed. 1986.
Series:Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 8
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Table of Contents:
  • The IGCP Project 216 "Global biological events in earth history"
  • Towards a more critical approach to bio-events
  • Devonian events at the Ense area (Excursion to the Rheinisches Schiefer-gebirge)
  • Ecostratigraphic criteria for evaluating the magnitude, character and duration of bioevents
  • Global bioevents and the question of periodicity
  • Chemical and isotopic variations in the world ocean during Phanerozoic time
  • The role of oceanographic factors in the generation of global bio-events
  • Evolutionary changes in the Proterozoic
  • Global biological events in the late Precambrian
  • Precambrian-Cambrian boundary biotas and events
  • The faunal extinction event near the Ordovician-Silurian boundary: a climatically induced crisis
  • A big event of latest Ordovician in China
  • Ordovician-Silurian boundary event in Bohemia (Prague Basin-Barrandian area)
  • Early Ordovician eustatic cycles and their bearing on punctuations in early nematophorid (planktic) graptolite evolution
  • Global bio-events in the Ordovician?
  • Significant geological events in the Paleozoic record of the Southern Alps (Austrian part)
  • Reflection of possible global Devonian events in the Barrandian area, C.S.S.R.
  • Ammonoid evolution before, during and after the "Kellwasser-event" — revien and preliminary new results
  • Frasnian mass extinction — a single catastrophic event or cumulative?
  • Evolution of the last Tropidocoryphinae (Trilobita) during the Frasnian
  • Middle to Upper Devonian boundary beds of the Holy Cross Mts: Brachiopod responses to eustatic events
  • The Kellwasser event in Moravia
  • Geochemical analyses of the Late Devonian “Kellwasser Event” stratigraphic horizon at Steinbruch Schmidt (F.R.G.)
  • Upper Frasnian and Lower Tournaisian events and evolution of calcareous foraminifera — close links to climatic changes
  • Miospore correlation between North American, German and Uralian (Udmurtia) deep facies through Appalachian, Irish and Belgian platform and continental facies near the Devonian/Carboniferous boundary
  • Permian fusulinacean faunas of Thailand — event controlled evolution
  • Triassic Bryozoa and the evolutionary crisis of Paleozoic Stenolaemata
  • Biological events in the evolution of Mesozoic ostracoda
  • Effects and causes in a black shale event — the Toarcian Posidonia Shale of NW Germany
  • High-resolution event stratigraphy: regional and global Cretaceous Bio-events
  • Trace metal accumulation in black shales from the Cenomanian/Turonian Boundary Event
  • The Cenomanian-Turonian boundary event: sedimentary, faunal and geochemical criteria developed from stratigraphic studies in NW-Germany
  • Upper Cretaceous Event-Stratigraphy in Europe
  • The Deccan Trapps (India) and Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary events
  • Palaeofloristic and palaeoclimatic changes in the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods (Facts, problems and tasks)
  • Two examples of evolution controlled by large scale abiotic processes: Eocene nummulitids of the South-Pyrenean Basin and Cretaceous Charophyta of Western Europe
  • The diachronous C/T plankton extinction in the Danish Basin
  • Some biostratigraphic and paleogeo-graphic observations on the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in the Haymana Polatli Region (Central Turkey)
  • Macro-invertebrates and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary
  • Bio-events in the continental realm during the Cretaceous/Tertiary transition: a multidisciplinary approach
  • Global Tertiary climatic changes, paleophytogeography and phytostratigraphy
  • Reflections upon the changes of local Tertiary herpetofaunas to global events.