The Carboniferous Timescale
Product code: SP512
Print publication date: 26/04/2022
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Earth Materials Deposits and Petrology, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Palaeontology and geobiology
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781786205421
Author/Edited by: Edited by S.G. Lucas, J-W. Schneider, X. Wang and S. Nikolaeva
Weight: 2.4kg
Number of pages: 1016
Online publication date: 12/04/2022
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/512/1
£230.00
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Special Publication 512
Co-published with IUGS
The print edition is published as 2 hardback volumes, parts A and B, and sold as a set.
The Carboniferous was the time of the assembly of Pangaea by the collision of the Gondwanan and Laurussian supercontinents, and the principal interval of the late Paleozoic ice ages. These tectonic and climatic events caused dramatic sea-level fluctuations and climate changes and produced a Carboniferous world that was diverse topographically and climatologically, perhaps only rivalled in that diversity by the late Cenozoic world. Furthermore, the Carboniferous was a time of the accumulation of vast coal deposits of great economic and societal significance. The temporal ordering of geological and biotic events during Carboniferous time thus is critical to the interpretation of some unique and pivotal events in Earth history. This temporal ordering is based on the Carboniferous timescale, which has been developed and refined for nearly two centuries. This book reviews the history of the development of the Carboniferous chronostratigraphic scale and includes comprehensive analyses of Carboniferous radioisotopic ages, magnetostratigraphy, isotope-based correlations, cyclostratigraphy and timescale-relevant marine and non-marine biostratigraphy and biochronology.
PART A (pages 1 to 693)
Lucas, S. G., Schneider, J. W., Nikolaeva, S. and Wang, X. The Carboniferous timescale: an introduction
Carboniferous chronostratigraphy
Lucas, S. G., Schneider, J. W., Nikolaeva, S. and Wang, X. The Carboniferous chronostratigraphic scale: history, status and prospectus
Alekseev, A. S., Nikolaeva, S. V., Goreva, N. V., Donova, N. B., Kossovaya, O. L., Kulagina, E. I., Kucheva, N. A., Kurilenko, A. V., Kutygin, R. V., Popeko, L. I. and Stepanova, T. I. Russian regional Carboniferous stratigraphy
González, C. R. and Díaz Saravia, P. Proposed chronostratigraphic units for the Carboniferous and early Permian of the southwestern Gondwana margin
Magnetostratigraphy
Hounslow, M. W. A geomagnetic polarity timescale for the Carboniferous
Isotope stratigraphy
Chen, J., Chen, B. and Montañez, I. P. Carboniferous isotope stratigraphy
Cyclostratigraphy
Montañez, I. P. Current synthesis of the penultimate icehouse and its imprint on the Upper Devonian through Permian stratigraphic record
Marine biostratigraphy
Vachard, D. and Le Coze, F. Carboniferous smaller Foraminifera: convergences and divergences
Ueno, K. Carboniferous fusuline Foraminifera: taxonomy, regional biostratigraphy, and palaeobiogeographic faunal development
Angiolini, L., Cisterna, G. A., Mottequin, B., Shen, S.-Z. and Muttoni, G. Global Carboniferous brachiopod biostratigraphy
Ausich, W. I., Kammer, T. W. and Mirantsev, G. V. Carboniferous crinoids
Wang, X.-D., Yang, S.-R., Yao, L., Sugiyama, T. and Hu, K.-yi Carboniferous biostratigraphy of rugose corals
Nikolaeva, S. V. Carboniferous ammonoid genozones
PART B (pages 695 to 1001)
Barrick, J. E., Alekseev, A. S., Blanco-Ferrera, S., Goreva, N. V., Hu, K., Lambert, L. L., Nemyrovska, T. I., Qi, Y., Ritter, S. M. and Sanz-López, J. Carboniferous conodont biostratigraphy
Ginter, M. The biostratigraphy of Carboniferous chondrichthyans
Non-marine biostratigraphy
Eble, C. F. Appalachian coal bed palynofloras: changes in composition through time and comparison with other areas
Opluštil, S., Cleal, C. J., Wang, J. and Wan, M. Carboniferous macrofloral biostratigraphy: an overview
Schneider, J. W., Scholze, F., Ross, A. J., Blake, B. M. Jr and Lucas, S. G. Improved blattoid insect and conchostracan zonation for the Late Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian, of Euramerica
Amler, M. R. W. and Silantiev, V. V. A global review of Carboniferous marine and non-marine bivalve biostratigraphy
Lucas, S. G., Stimson, M. R., King, O. A., Calder, J. H., Mansky, C. F., Hebert, B. L. and Hunt, A. P. Carboniferous tetrapod footprint biostratigraphy, biochronology and evolutionary events
Lucas, S. G. Carboniferous tetrapod biostratigraphy, biochronology and evolutionary events
Index (pages 1003 to 1016)
