Pangea : paleoclimate, tectonics, and sedimentation during accretion, zenith, and breakup of a supercontinent / edited by George D. Klein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klein, George deVries, 1933-

Geological Society of America.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 288.

Special paper ; 288

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pangaea (Supercontinent)--Congresses.

Pangaea (Supercontinent).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 295 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 1994.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction : project PANGEA and workshop recommendations / G.D. Klein

Pangea : evolution of a supercontinent and its consequences for Earth's paleoclimate and sedimentary environments / J.J. Veevers

Pangean climates / T.J. Crowley

Idealized Pangean climates : sensitivity to orbital change / J.E. Kutzbach

Phanerozoic Co₂ levels and global temperatures inferred from changing paleogeography / T.R. Worsley [and others]

Orogenic enhancement of weathering and continental ice-sheet initiation / T.L. Moore and T.R. Worsley

General circulation model simulations of triassic climates : preliminary results / K.M. Wilson [and others]

Depiction of modern and Pangean deserts : evaluation of GCM hydrological diagnostics for paleoclimate studies / M.A. Chandler

The climatic evolution of India and Australia from the late permian to mid-jurassic : a comparison of climate model results with the geologic record / P.J. Fawcett

Pangean orogenic and epeirogenic uplifts and their possible climatic significance / G.M. Friedman

The breakup of Pangea and its impact on climate : consequences of Variscan-Alleghanide orogenic collapse / W. Manspeizer

Turning point in Pangean envionmental history at the Permian/Triassic (P/Tr) boundary / J.J. Veevers, P.J. Conaghan, and S.E. Shaw

Geologically rapid late triassic extinctions : palynological evidence from the Newark supergroup / S J. Fowell, B. Cornet, and P.E. Olsen

The carbon and oxygen isotope record during the evolution of Pangea : carboniferous to triassic / E.L. Grossman

Permian climatic cooling in the Canadian Arctic / B. Beauchamp

Pangean shelf carbonates : controls and paleoclimatic significance of permian and triassic reefs / E. Flügel

Stratal hierarchy and sequence stratigraphy- Middle Pensylvanian, Southwestern Kansas, U.S.A. / J.C. Youle, W.L. Watney, and L.L. Lambert.

Notes:

Summaries of papers presented during an international workshop held in Lawrence, Kansas, in May 1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Pangea.

OCLC:

858791402

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