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Applied Stratigraphy

  • Provides innovative and traditional techniques in stratigraphy
  • These techniques contribute to geological and paleobiological researches, for example:
  • charting the course and complexities of the evolution of life through time
  • understanding how ancient ecosystems developed and operated
  • furnishing data pivotal to strategic mineral exploration

Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology (TGBI, volume 23)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Evolution of a Concept

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Stratigraphy: Evolution of a Concept

      • Eduardo A. M. Koutsoukos
      Pages 3-19
  3. The Search for Patterns: Ordering the Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
    2. Buried Time: Chronostratigraphy as a Research Tool

      • Marie-Pierre Aubry, John A. van Couvering
      Pages 23-53
    3. Devonian Palynostratigraphy in Western Gondwana

      • Stanislas Loboziak, José Henrique G. Melo, Maurice Streel
      Pages 73-99
    4. Carboniferous and Permian Palynostratigraphy

      • Geoffrey Playford, Rodolfo Dino
      Pages 101-121
    5. The K-T Boundary

      • Eduardo A. M. Koutsoukos
      Pages 147-161
  4. The Search for Clues: Analyzing and Sequencing the Record

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
    2. Chemostratigraphy

      • René Rodrigues
      Pages 165-178
    3. Paleobotany and Paleoclimatology

      • Laureen Sally Da Rosa Alves, Margot Guerra-Sommer, Tânia Lindner Dutra
      Pages 179-202
    4. Palynofacies Analysis and its Stratigraphic Application

      • David J. Batten, Darrin T. Stead
      Pages 203-226
    5. Sequence Biostratigraphy with Examples from the Plio-Pleistocene and Quaternary

      • Hilary Clement Olson, Peter R. Thompson
      Pages 227-247
    6. Significance of Ichnofossils to Applied Stratigraphy

      • S. George Pemberton, James A. Maceachern
      Pages 279-300
    7. Cyclostratigraphy

      • Martin A. Perlmutter, Nilo C. de Azambuja Filho
      Pages 301-338
    8. The Role and Value of “Biosteering” in Hydrocarbon Reservoir Exploitation

      • Robert W. Jones, Stephen Lowe, Paul Milner, Peter Heavey, Simon Payne, David Ewen
      Pages 339-355
  5. Modelling the Record

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 357-357

About this book

Few, if any, fundamental disciplines in the earth sciences have seen so many dramatic changes and developments as stratigraphy. The discipline has come to be applied progressively, and indispensably, to nearly all branches of the earth sciences, including such endeavors as charting the course and complexities of life evolution through time, understanding how ancient ecosystems developed and operated, and furnishing data pivotal to exploration and exploitation of strategic mineral resources.

This book aims to incorporate major aspects and essential elements underpinning the modern applications and perspectives of stratigraphy. It focuses on traditional and innovative techniques and how these can be utilized in reconstructing the geological history of sedimentary basins and in solving manifold geological problems and phenomena. Each chapter summarizes contributions by leading researchers in the field. It is hoped that this book will provide the reader with key insights into all these aspects and applications.

Editors and Affiliations

  • PETROBRAS-CENPES, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Eduardo A. M. Koutsoukos

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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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