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Extinction Events in Earth History

Proceedings of the Project 216: Global Biological Events in Earth History

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1990

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  1. Erle G. Kauffman
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  2. Otto H. Walliser
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences (LNEARTH, volume 30)

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Table of contents (34 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. How to define “global bio-events”

    • Walliser Otto H.
    Pages 1-3

  3. Phanerozoic extinctions: How similar are they to each other?

    • Boucot Arthur J.
    Pages 5-30

  4. Biological selectivity of extinction

    • Kitchell Jennifer A.
    Pages 31-43

  5. A multi-causal model of mass extinctions: Increase in trace metals in the oceans

    • Leary Paul N., Rampino Michael R.
    Pages 45-55

  6. Important considerations in the investigation of global bioevents

    • Leary P. N., Hart M. B.
    Pages 57-57

  7. Shock pressures in igneous processes: Implications for K/T events

    • Rice Alan
    Pages 59-83

  8. Vertical advection from oxic or anoxic water from the main pycnocline as a cause of rapid extinction or rapid radiations

    • Wilde Pat, Quinby-Hunt Mary S., Berry William B. N.
    Pages 85-98

  9. An astronomical explanation of anomalous concentrations of iridium element during catastrophic extinctions

    • Yang Zhengzong
    Pages 99-103

  10. Evolutionary crisis within the Ordovician acrotretid inarticulate brachiopods of Poland

    • Biernat Gertrude, Bednarczyk Wieslaw
    Pages 105-114

  11. Late Ordovician graptolite mass mortality and subsequent early silurian re-radiation

    • Berry William B. N., Wilde Pat, Quinby-Hunt Mary S.
    Pages 115-123

  12. Silurian and pre-Upper Devonian bio-events

    • Boucot Arthur J.
    Pages 125-132

  13. The Kacak-otomari event and its characterization in the Palentine domain (Cantabrian Zone, NW Spain)

    • Truyóls-Massoni M., Montesinos R., Garcia-Alcalde J. L., Leyva F.
    Pages 133-143

  14. The Middle Givetian pumilio-Events a tool for high time resolution and event-stratigraphical correlation

    • Lottmann Jan
    Pages 145-149

  15. The late Frasnian (Upper Devonian) Kellwasser Crisis

    • E. Schindler
    Pages 151-159

  16. The Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction record in the eastern United States

    • Mc Ghee George R. Jr.
    Pages 161-168

  17. Frasnian/famennian event in the Holy Cross Mts, Central Poland: Stratigraphic and ecologic aspects

    • Racki Grzegorz
    Pages 169-181

  18. Late Devonian — Early Carboniferous paleobiogeography of benthic Foraminifera and climatic oscillations

    • Kalvoda Jiri
    Pages 183-187

  19. Major evolutionary events among the spiriferids at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary

    • Simakov K. V.
    Pages 189-198

  20. The Permian-Triassic boundary revisited

    • Teichert Curt
    Pages 199-238
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About this book

This volume is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of dynamic biological changes through the Phanerozoic which are associated with mass extinction events and similar biotic crises, and their causal mechanisms. In particular, it documents in detail the complex nature of terrestrial and extraterrestrial feedback loops that are associated with many mass extinction intervals. Authors have been asked to represent most of the known mass extinction events through time, and to comment on the complex earthbound or extraterrestrial causes (or both) for global biotic crises. The reader is offered new perspectives of extinction boundaries, a more innovative and diverse approach to causal mechanisms and mass extinction theory, blended views of paleobiologists, oceanographers, geochemists, volcanologists, and sedimentologists by an international cast of authors. No other book on extinction presents such a broad spectrum of data and theories on the subject of mass extinction.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Extinction Events in Earth History

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Project 216: Global Biological Events in Earth History

  • Editors: Erle G. Kauffman, Otto H. Walliser

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0011129

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-52605-6Published: 30 May 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-47071-7Published: 23 November 2005

  • Series ISSN: 0930-0317

  • Series E-ISSN: 1613-2580

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 433

  • Number of Illustrations: 77 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sedimentology, Geology, Geophysics/Geodesy

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