| Description |
viii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
The Idea of Global Events: A Prologue / Otto H. Walliser -- Patterns and Causes of Global Events /Otto H. Walliser -- Evaluating Paleontologic Data Relating to Bio-Events / J. John Sepkoski, Jr. and Carl F. Koch -- Patterns of Phanerozoic Extinction: A Perspective from Global Data Bases / J. John Sepkoski, Jr. -- Phanerozoic Development of Selected Global Environmental Features / Jared R. Morrow, Eberhard Schindler and Otto H. Walliser -- Global Isotopic Events / William T. Holser, Mordeckai Magaritz and Robert L. Ripperdan -- Geobiological Trends and Events in the Precambrian Biosphere / Mikhail A. Fedonkin --The Basal Cambrian Transition and Cambrian Bio-Events (From Terminal Proterozoic Extinctions to Cambrian Biomeres) / Martin D. Brasier -- The Pattern of Global Bio-Events during the Ordovician Period / Christopher R. Barnes, Richard A. Fortey and S. Henry Williams |
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Silurian Bio-Events / Dimitri Kaljo, Arthur J. Boucot, Richard M. Corfield, Alain Le Herisse, Tatyana N. Koren, Jiri Kriz, Peep Mannik, Tiiu Marss, Viiu Nestor, Robert H. Shaver, Derek J. Siveter and Viive Viira -- Global Events in the Devonian and Carboniferous / Otto H. Walliser -- Permian Global Bio-Events / Douglas H. Erwin -- Major Bio-Events in the Triassic and Jurassic / Anthony Hallam --Cretaceous Bio-Events / Erle G. Kauffman and Malcolm B. Hart -- The Man-made Global Disaster: An Epilogue to the Subject of Global Bio-Events / Otto H. Walliser -- Phanerozoic Global Event-Stratigraphy / Christopher R. Barnes et al |
| Notes |
"Results of the international interdisciplinary cooperation in the IGCP-Project 216 "Global Biological Events in Earth History"--P. facing t.p |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Event stratigraphy -- Congresses.
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Evolution -- Congresses.
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Evolution.
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Extinction (Biology)
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Extinction (Biology) -- Congresses.
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Paleontology -- Phanerozoic.
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Paleontology, Stratigraphic -- Congresses.
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Paleontology, Stratigraphic.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Walliser, Otto H.
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IGCP Project 216--"Global Biological Events in Earth History."
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| LC no. |
95039141 |
| ISBN |
3540590560 (Berlin : hardcover : alk. paper) |
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