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Title

Applied stratigraphy / edited by Eduardo A.M. Koutsoukos.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Norwell, Mass. : Springer, c2005.

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Additional Authors

Koutsoukos, Eduardo A. M.

Description

xvii, 478 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

"This book is intended as a graduate-level textbook and reference text, primarily to meet complementary requirements and also serve as the major reference in general and applied courses on stratigraphy, paleontology, paleoecology, basin analysis, and sedimentary and petroleum geology."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Topics in geobiology ; v. 23

Uniform Title

• Topics in geobiology v. 23.
• Topics in geobiology ; 23.

Subjects

• Geologic Sediments
• Geology, Stratigraphic
• Life sciences
• Geosciences
• Biogeosciences
• Paleontology
• Sedimentology
• Applied Geosciences
• Geochemistry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-461) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Stratigraphy : evolution of a concept / Eduardo A.M. Koutsoukos -- Buried time : chronostratigraphy as a research tool / Marie-Pierre Aubry and John A. Van Couvering -- Ecostratigraphy's basis, using Silurian and Devonian examples, with consideration of the biogeographic complication / Arthur J. Boucot -- Devonian palynostratigraphy in western Gondwana / Stanislas Loboziak, José Henrique G. Melo and Maurice Streel -- Carboniferous and Permian palynostratigraphy / Geoffrey Playford and Rodolfo Dino -- Biostratigraphy of the non-marine Triassic : is a global correlation based on tetrapod faunas possible? / Cesar L. Schultz -- The K-T boundary / Eduardo A.M. Koutsoukos -- Chemostratigraphy / René Rodrigues -- Paleobotany and paleoclimatology. Part 1, Growth rings in fossil woods and paleoclimates / Laureen Sally da Rosa Alves and Margot Guerra-Sommer. Part 2, Leaf assemblages (taphonomy, paleoclimatology and paleogeography) / Tânia Lindner Dutra -- Palynofacies analysis and its stratigraphic application / David J. Batten and Darrin T. Stead -- Sequence biostratigraphy with examples from the Plio-Pleistocene and Quaternary / Hillary Clement Olson and Peter R. Thompson -- Taphonomy - overview of main concepts and applications to sequence stratigraphic analysis / Michael Holz and Marcello G. Simões -- Significance of ichnofossils to applied stratigraphy / S. George Pemberton and James A. MacEachern -- Cyclostratigraphy / Martin A. Perlmutter and Nilo C. de Azambuja Filho -- The role and value of "biosteering" in hydrocarbon reservoir exploitation / Robert W. Jones ... [et al.] -- Quantitative methods for applied microfossil biostratigraphy / Felix M. Gradstein.

ISBN

1402026323

LCCN

^^2005297432

OCLC

• 58747708
• SCSB-10264355

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library