Applied stratigraphy
By: edited by Eduardo A.M. Koutsoukos.
Contributors: Koutsoukos, Eduardo A. M.
Series: Topics in geobiology ;; v. 23
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
Subjects: Geology, Stratigraphic
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-461) and index.
Table of contents: title: Stratigraphy : evolution of a concept / Eduardo A.M. Koutsoukos; title: Buried time : chronostratigraphy as a research tool / Marie-Pierre Aubry and John A. Van Couvering; title: Ecostratigraphy's basis, using Silurian and Devonian examples, with consideration of the biogeographic complication / Arthur J. Boucot; title: Devonian palynostratigraphy in western Gondwana / Stanislas Loboziak, José Henrique G. Melo and Maurice Streel; title: Carboniferous and Permian palynostratigraphy / Geoffrey Playford and Rodolfo Dino; title: Biostratigraphy of the non-marine Triassic : is a global correlation based on tetrapod faunas possible? / Cesar L. Schultz; title: The K-T boundary / Eduardo A.M. Koutsoukos; title: Chemostratigraphy / René Rodrigues; title: 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; title: Palynofacies analysis and its stratigraphic application / David J. Batten and Darrin T. Stead; title: Sequence biostratigraphy with examples from the Plio-Pleistocene and Quaternary / Hillary Clement Olson and Peter R. Thompson; title: Taphonomy - overview of main concepts and applications to sequence stratigraphic analysis / Michael Holz and Marcello G. Simões; title: Significance of ichnofossils to applied stratigraphy / S. George Pemberton and James A. MacEachern; title: Cyclostratigraphy / Martin A. Perlmutter and Nilo C. de Azambuja Filho; title: The role and value of "biosteering" in hydrocarbon reservoir exploitation / Robert W. Jones ... [et al.]; title: Quantitative methods for applied microfossil biostratigraphy / Felix M. Gradstein.