The Permian extinction and the Tethys
Subtitle: an exercise in global geology
By: A.M. Celâl Şengör and Saniye Atayman.
Contributors: Atayman, Saniye.
Series: Special paper -- 448
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813724485
Subjects: Geology, Stratigraphic -- Permian.; Tethys (Paleogeography); Extinction (Biology); Anoxic zones.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Tethys and the tethyan realm; title: The Tethyan terminology; title: The tectonics of Pangaea and the palaeo-Tethys during the late Permian; title: Anoxia and its products; title: Some Permian sections in and around the palaeo-Tethys; title: History of global redox conditions in the late Permian; title: Palaeo-Tethyan anoxia and the "end-Permian" extinction; title: Conclusions.