Ice Ages, Climate Dynamics and Biotic Events: The Late Pennsylvanian World
Product code: SP535
Print publication date: 19/06/2023
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Earth Structure Processes and Tectonics, Palaeoclimatology, Stratigraphy
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781786205919
Author/Edited by: Edited by S.G. Lucas, W.A. DiMichele, S. Opluštil, and X. Wang
Weight: 1.3kg
Number of pages: 505
Online publication date: 06/06/2023
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/535/1
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Special Publication 535
The Late Pennsylvanian was a time of ice ages and associated climate dynamics. A major reduction in Gondwana ice-volume was followed by a prolonged period of relative global warmth, culminating in the last great ice age of the late Paleozoic. It also was a major turning point in the evolution of life on land, when the coal forests of the Middle Pennsylvanian gave way to new kinds of Late Pennsylvanian wetland vegetation, and new kinds of animals appeared. Changes in the terrestrial biota began during the Middle Pennsylvanian, accelerating and proceeding in a spatially complex manner throughout the Late Pennsylvanian. The Late Pennsylvanian is thus a laboratory for studying environmental changes in a glacial world, and for assessing coeval biotic changes, in part to establish the possible links between the two. No book has been dedicated to this time interval, so this volume fills a gap in our understanding of a dynamic Late Pennsylvanian world that is much like the late Cenozoic world.
Introduction
Lucas, S. G., DiMichele, W. A., Opluštil, S. and Wang, X. An introduction to ice ages, climate dynamics and biotic events: the Late Pennsylvanian world
Timescale
Wang, X., Hu, K. and Li, Y. Timescale for the Kasimovian Stage
The Cantabrian Stage
Knight, J. A., Cleal, C. J. and Álvarez-Vázquez, C. The challenge of relating the Kasimovian to west European chronostratigraphy: a critical review of the Cantabrian and Barruelian substages of the Stephanian Stage
Nelson, W. J., Lucas, S. G. and Elrick, S. D. The Cantabrian Substage should be abandoned: revised chronostratigraphy of the Middle–Late Pennsylvanian boundary
Pfefferkorn, H. W. Pennsylvanian-age plant macrofossil biostratigraphy in tropical Pangaea: uniformitarianism, catastrophes and the ‘Cantabrian’ problem
Geological context
Iannuzzi, R., di Pasquo, M. M., Vesely, F. F., Scherer, C. M. S., Andrade, L. S., Mottin, T. and Kifumbi, C. Pennsylvanian glacial cycles in western Gondwana: an overview
Griffis, N., Mundil, R., Montañez, I., Le Heron, D., Dietrich, P. and Iannuzzi, R. A Carboniferous apex for the late Paleozoic icehouse
Heckel, P. H. North American Midcontinent Pennsylvanian cyclothems and their implications
Gulbranson, E. L. and Tabor, N. J. A global perspective of soil-forming conditions during the Late Pennsylvanian: potential stochastic forcing by geosphere–biosphere carbon pools
Soreghan, G. S., Heavens, N. G., Pfeifer, L. S. and Soreghan, M. J. Dust and loess as archives and agents of climate and climate change in the late Paleozoic Earth system
Opluštil, S. and Schneider, J. W. Middle–Late Pennsylvanian tectonosedimentary, climatic and biotic records in basins of Europe, NW Turkey and North Africa: an overview
Palaeobotany
DiMichele, W. A., Eble, C. F., Pfefferkorn, H. W., Elrick, S. D., Nelson, W. J. and Lucas, S. G. Kasimovian floristic change in tropical wetlands and the Middle–Late Pennsylvanian Boundary Event
Schachat, S., Baresch, A., Bui, T., Falcon-Lang, H. J., Chaney, D. S., Nelson, W. J., Elrick, S. D., Kerp, H., Lucas, S. G. and DiMichele, W. A. Vegetational change during the Middle–Late Pennsylvanian transition in western Pangaea
Wilson, J. P., Oppler, G., Reikowski, E., Smart, J., Marquardt, C. and Keller, B. Physiological selectivity and plant–environment feedbacks during Middle and Late Pennsylvanian plant community transitions
Invertebrate palaeontology
Barrick, J. E., Hogancamp, N. J. and Rosscoe, S. J. Evolutionary patterns in Late Pennsylvanian conodonts
Hu, K., Wang, X. and Qi, Y. Biostratigraphy and biofacies of the Kasimovian conodonts from the Shanglong section, South China
Donovan, M. P., Schachat, S. R. and Monarrez, P. M. Ecological and evolutionary responses of terrestrial arthropods to Middle–Late Pennsylvanian environmental change
Vertebrate palaeontology
Lucas, S. G. Middle to Late Pennsylvanian tetrapod evolution: the Kasimovian bottleneck
Index
