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Global Events and Event Stratigraphy in the Phanerozoic

Results of the International Interdisciplinary Cooperation in the IGCP-Project 216 “Global Biological Events in Earth History”

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Editors:
  1. Otto H. Walliser

    1. Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie, Göttingen, Germany

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    1. The Idea of Global Events

      • Otto H. Walliser
      Pages 1-5

  3. General Themes

    1. Patterns and Causes of Global Events

      • Otto H. Walliser
      Pages 7-19

    2. Evaluating Paleontologic Data Relating to Bio-Events

      • J. John Sepkoski Jr., Carl F. Koch
      Pages 21-34

    3. Patterns of Phanerozoic Extinction: a Perspective from Global Data Bases

      • J. John Sepkoski Jr.
      Pages 35-51

    4. Phanerozoic Development of Selected Global Environmental Features

      • Jared R. Morrow, Eberhard Schindler, Otto H. Walliser
      Pages 53-61

    5. Global Isotopic Events

      • William T. Holser, Mordeckai Magaritz, Robert L. Ripperdan
      Pages 63-88

  4. Phanerozoic Global Bio-Events

    1. Geobiological Trends and Events in the Precambrian Biosphere

      • Mikhail A. Fedonkin
      Pages 89-112

    2. The Basal Cambrian Transition and Cambrian Bio-Events (From Terminal Proterozoic Extinctions to Cambrian Biomeres)

      • Martin D. Brasier
      Pages 113-138

    3. The Pattern of Global Bio-Events During the Ordovician Period

      • Christopher R. Barnes, Richard A. Fortey, S. Henry Williams
      Pages 139-172

    4. Silurian Bio-Events

      • Dimitri Kaljo, Arthur J. Boucot, Richard M. Corfield, Alain Le Herisse, Tatyana N. Koren, Jiri Kriz et al.
      Pages 173-224

    5. Global Events in the Devonian and Carboniferous

      • Otto H. Walliser
      Pages 225-250

    6. Permian Global Bio-Events

      • Douglas H. Erwin
      Pages 251-264

    7. Major Bio-Events in the Triassic and Jurassic

      • Anthony Hallam
      Pages 265-283

    8. Cretaceous Bio-Events

      • Erle G. Kauffman, Malcolm B. Hart
      Pages 285-312

    9. The Man-Made Global Disaster An Epilogue to the Subject of Global Bio-Events

      • Otto H. Walliser
      Pages 313-318

  5. Phanerozoic Global Event-Stratigraphy

    1. Global Event Stratigraphy

      • Christopher R. Barnes, Anthony Hallam, Dimitri Kaljo, Erle G. Kauffman, Otto H. Walliser
      Pages 319-333

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 335-335
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The existence of rapid and even catastrophic turnovers within the Phanerozoic ecosystems has been discussed controversially for more than 170 years. Since 1980 this discussion has become even more intensive after the hypothesis of Alvarez, explaining the end-Cretaceous mass extinction as the result of a huge asteroid impact on the Earth. This theory stimulated several thousand papers and is still controversial. The international research programme on "Global Biological Events in Earth History" attempts to bring the discussion back to the facts by using multidisciplinary investigations of the major Phanerozoic events. The results of an international group of experts are presented giving a wealth of information and a thorough discussion of the causes of the various global events.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie, Göttingen, Germany

    Otto H. Walliser

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Global Events and Event Stratigraphy in the Phanerozoic

  • Book Subtitle: Results of the International Interdisciplinary Cooperation in the IGCP-Project 216 “Global Biological Events in Earth History”

  • Editors: Otto H. Walliser

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79634-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-79636-4Published: 30 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-79634-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 333

  • Topics: Geology, Paleontology, Sedimentology, Mineralogy

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