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Global Events and Event Stratigraphy in the Phanerozoic

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Editors:
  1. Otto H. Walliser

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

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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.

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  2. Introduction

  3. General Themes

  4. Phanerozoic Global Bio-Events

    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. Phanerozoic Global Event-Stratigraphy

    1. Global Event Stratigraphy

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

      Pages 319-333

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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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