Stratigraphy has come to be indispensable to nearly all branches of the earth sciences, assisting such endeavors as charting the course of evolution, understanding ancient ecosystems, and furnishing data pivotal to finding strategic mineral resources. This book focuses on traditional and innovative stratigraphy techniques and how these can be used to reconstruct the geological history of sedimentary basins and in solving manifold geological problems and phenomena.
Author(s): by Eduardo A.M. Koutsoukos (Editor)
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 471
Contents......Page 7
Aims & Scope Topics in Geobiology Book Series......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
Foreword: The Age of Applied Stratigraphy......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 15
PART I: EVOLUTION OF A CONCEPT......Page 16
1 Stratigraphy: Evolution of a Concept......Page 17
PART II: THE SEARCH FOR PATTERNS: ORDERING THE FRAMEWORK......Page 34
2 Buried Time: Chronostratigraphy as a Research Tool......Page 35
3 Ecostratigraphy’s Basis, using Silurian and Devonian Examples, with Consideration of the Biogeographic Complication......Page 66
4 Devonian Palynostratigraphy in Western Gondwana......Page 83
5 Carboniferous and Permian Palynostratigraphy......Page 110
6 Biostratigraphy of the Non-Marine Triassic: Is a Global Correlation Based on Tetrapod Faunas Possible?......Page 131
7 The K–T Boundary......Page 154
PART III: THE SEARCH FOR CLUES: ANALYZING AND SEQUENCING THE RECORD......Page 169
8 Chemostratigraphy......Page 170
Part II: Leaf Assemblages (Taphonomy, Paleoclimatology and Paleogeography)......Page 184
10 Palynofacies Analysis and its Stratigraphic Application......Page 208
11 Sequence Biostratigraphy with Examples from the Plio-Pleistocene and Quaternary......Page 232
12 Taphonomy – Overview of Main Concepts and Applications to Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis......Page 253
13 Significance of Ichnofossils to Applied Stratigraphy......Page 283
14 Cyclostratigraphy......Page 305
15 The Role and Value of “Biosteering” in Hydrocarbon Reservoir Exploitation......Page 343
PART IV: MODELLING THE RECORD......Page 360
16 Quantitative Methods for Applied Microfossil Biostratigraphy......Page 361
References......Page 389
Appendix: Color Version of Figures......Page 464
B......Page 480
C......Page 481
E......Page 482
H......Page 483
M......Page 484
P......Page 485
R......Page 486
S......Page 487
V......Page 488
Z......Page 489
