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Devonian Events and Correlations

Product Code: SP278
Series: GSL Special Publications - print copy
Author/Editor: Edited by R T Becker and W T Kirchgasser
Publication Date: 02 August 2007
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The Devonian was a peculiar period, characterized by simplified plate tectonic configurations, climatic overheating and widely flooded continents. The bloom of fishes and ammonoids, extensive reef complexes, and the conquest of land indicate major biosphere innovations, punctuated by many global events, including two of the biggest mass extinctions. The Devonian was the first system for which subdivisions were formally defined. This was achieved by significant advances in pelagic biostratigraphy. The chronostratigraphic framework and interdisciplinary techniques allow us to correlate intervals or sudden events across facies boundaries, in order to reconstruct the sedimentary and evolutionary history of the system with highest precision.

This volume honors the lifetime stratigraphic achievements of Michael Robert House (1930-2002). Based on case studies from Europe, North Africa and North America, it shows how the combination of biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and event stratigraphy can contribute to a much deeper understanding of both regional and global environmental change.

Type: Book
Ten Digit ISBN: 1-86239-222-6
Thirteen Digit ISBN: 978-1-86239-222-9
Publisher: GSL
Binding: Hardback
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.84 kg

Contents

Devonian events and correlations - a tribute to the lifetime achievements of Michael Robert House (1930 - 2002), R. T. Becker and W T Kirchgasser • Neritic-pelagic correlation in the Lower and basal Middle Devonian of the Dra Valley (Southern Anti-Atlas, Moroccan Pre-Sahara), U Jansen, N Lazreq, G Plodowski, M Schemm-Gregory, E Schindler and K Weddige • Basinwide stratigraphic synthesis and sequence stratigraphy, Upper Pragian, Emsian and Eifelian Stages (Lower to Middle Devonian), Appalachian Basin, C A Ver Straeten • Persistent depositional sequences and bioevents in the Eifelian (early Middle Devonian) of eastern Laurentia: North American evidence of the Ka?ák Events? M K DeSantis, C E Brett and C A Ver Straeten • Correlation of Middle Devonian Hamilton Group-equivalent strata in East-Central North America: implications for eustasy, tectonics, and faunal provinciality, A J Bartholomew and C E Brett • Recognising the Ka?ák Event in the Devonian terrestrial environment and its implications for understanding land-sea interactions, J E A Marshall, T R Astin, J F Brown, E Mark-Kurik and J Lazauskiene • Givetian (Middle Devonian) Brachiopod-Goniatite-Correlation in the Dra Valley (Anti-Atlas, Morocco) and Bergisch Gladbach-Paffrath Syncline (Rhenish Massif, Germany), V Ebbighausen, R T Becker, J Bockwinkel and Z S Aboussalam • The end-Frasnian mass extinction in the Eifel Mountains, Germany: new insights from organic matter composition and preservation, C Hartkopf-Froder, M Kloppisch, U Mann, P Neumann-Mahlkau, R G Schaefer and H Wilkes • Environmental changes at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary in Central Morocco (Northern Gondwana): integrated rock-magnetic and geochemical studies, L Riquier, O Averbuch, N Tribovillard, A El Albani, N Lazreq and S Chakiri • The biostratigraphic and palaeogeographic framework of the earliest diversification of tetrapods (Late Devonian), A Blieck, G Clement, H Blom, H Lelievre, E Luksevics, M Streel, J Thorez and G C Young • Middle to Late Famennian successions at Ain Jemaa (Moroccan Meseta) – implications for regional correlation, event stratigraphy and synsedimentary tectonics of NW Gondwana, S I Kaiser, R T Becker and A El Hassani • Brachiopod faunal changes across the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in NW Sahara (Morocco, Algeria), D Brice, M Legrand-Blain and J P Nicollin

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