The Permian of Northern Pangea

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VII

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2. Basin Studies-North America

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Permian History of Arctic North America

      • Benoit Beauchamp

      Pages 3-22

   3. Permian of the Western United States

      • Bruce R. Wardlaw, Walter S. Snyder, Claude Spinosa, Dora M. Gallegos

      Pages 23-40

   4. Permian Stratigraphy and Facies, Permian Basin (Texas—New Mexico) and Adjoining Areas in the Midcontinent United States

      • S. J. Mazzullo

      Pages 41-60

   5. Filling the Delaware Basin: Hydrologic and Climatic Controls on the Upper Permian Castile Formation Varved Evaporite

      • Roger Y. Anderson, Walter E. Dean

      Pages 61-78

3. Basin Studies-Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Permian History of the Barents Shelf Area

      • Lars Stemmerik, David Worsley

      Pages 81-97

   3. Permian History of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea Area

      • Lars Stemmerik

      Pages 98-118

   4. Facies, Paleogeography, and Sedimentary History of the Southern Permian Basin in Europe

      • Hubert Kiersnowski, Josef Paul, Tadeusz Marek Peryt, Denys B. Smith

      Pages 119-136

   5. A General Outline of the Permian Continental Basins in Southwestern Europe

      • Giuseppe Cassinis, Nadège Toutin-Morin, Carmina Virgili

      Pages 137-157

   6. Permian Deposits of the Urals and Preduralye

      • B. I. Chuvashov

      Pages 158-183

4. Basin Studies-Middle East/Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Permian in the Arabian Basin and Adjacent Areas: A Critical Review

      • A. S. Alsharhan, A. E. M. Nairn

      Pages 187-214

   3. The Permian of Pakistan

      • Bruce R. Wardlaw, Kevin R. Pogue

      Pages 215-224

   4. The Permian of China

      • Paul Enos

      Pages 225-256

5. Economic Resources

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257

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   2. Oil and Gas Resources in Permian Rocks of North America

      • S. J. Mazzullo

      Pages 259-272

   3. Hydrocarbon Occurrences in Permian Strata of the Commonwealth of Independent States

      • Vitaliy G. Kuznetsov

      Pages 273-291

   4. Permian Phosphorites: A Paradox of Phosphogenesis

      • James R. Herring

      Pages 292-312

The Permian was a remarkable time period. It represents the maximum stage of Pangean continental assembly, includes a major global climatic shift from glacial to nonglacial conditions (icehouse-greenhouse transition), and is ter­ minated by one of the most profound faunal/floral extinction events in the Earth's history. In addition, Permian oceans, although poorly understood, must have had some quite unique characteristics. Permian seas reached the most extreme values of carbon, sulfur, and strontium isotopic ratios ever achieved in Phanerozoic time, and the isotopic ratios of all three elements abruptly returned to more "normal" values at, or very close to, the Permo­ Triassic boundary. Finally, the Permian is marked by an abundance of important sedimentary mineral resources. It has large fossil fuel concentra­ tions (coal, oil, and natural gas), enormous phosphate reserves, and very extensive evaporite deposits, including gypsum, anhydrite, and halite, as well as a variety of potash salts. Study of the Permian has been hampered, however, by a number of factors. These include a scattered geologic literature (presented in a variety of languages), a confusing regional and global stratigraphic framework (based, in part, on inadequate type sections), and largely provincial, often poorly correlatable faunas. All have contributed to the sparsity and inadequacy of overviews of this critical geological interval. These two volumes attempt to bring together some of the widely scattered observations about these fascinating rocks, at least for the northern (predominantly nonglacial) parts of Pangea.

• Europe
• Geologie
• Geology
• Paleoclimatology
• Paleoklimatologie
• Pangaea
• Permian
• Sedimentologie
• Sedimentology
• Stratigraphie
• Stratigraphy

• Department of Geology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA

  Peter A. Scholle, Dana S. Ulmer-Scholle

• Panstwowy Institute of Geology, Warsaw, Poland

  Tadeusz M. Peryt

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