The Ordovician earth system / edited by Stanley C. Finney, William B.N. Berry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finney, Stanley C. (Stanley Charles), 1947-

Berry, William B. N.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 466.

Special paper ; 466

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleobiogeography--Ordovician.

Paleobiogeography.

Paleoecology--Ordovician.

Paleoecology.

Biodiversity.

Physical Description:

viii, 193 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2010.

Contents:

Global settingg of Oridivcian orogensis / Cees R. van Staal and Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.

Oridvician explosive volcanism / Warren D Haff, Stig M. Bergström, and Dennis R. Kolata

Toward identifying potential causes forstratigraphicc change in subtropical to tropical Laurentia during the Mohawkian (early Late Ordivician) / Achim D, Hermann and Bernar J. Haupt

The Upper Oridivician Guttenberg [delta]13C Excursion (GICE) in North America and Baltoscandia:occurrencee, chronostratiographic significance, and paleoenvironmental relationships / Stig M. Bergström, Birger Schmitz, Matthew R. Saltzman, and Warren D. Huff

The Ordovician brachiopod radiation: roles of alpha beta, and gamma diversity / David A. T. Harper

Oridivician paleography and tectonics of the major paleoplates of China / Chen Xu, Zhou Zhi-yi, and Fan Jun-xuan

Ordivician of the Siberian Platform / Alexander V. Kanygin,... [et al.]

Early-Middle Ordovician conodont paleobiogeography with special regard to the geographic origin of the Argentine Precordillera: a multivariate data analysis / Guillermo L. Albanesi and Stig M. Bergström

Black shales: an Ordovician perspective / William B. N. Berry

Paleogeographic, paleoceanographic, and tectonic controls on early Late Ordovician graptolite diversity patterns / Daniel Goldman and Wu Shuang-Ye

Origin of Late Ordovician (mid-Mohawkian) temperate- water conditions on southeastern Laurentia: glacial or tectonic? / Frank R. Ettensohn

Correlations across a facies mosaic within the Lexington Limesotne of central Kentucky, USA, using whole-rock stable isotope compositions / John W. Coates, Frank R. Ettensohn, and Harold D. Rowe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780813724669

081372466X

OCLC:

502303994