Read more
List of contents
Contributors vii
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I: Introduction 1. Chemostratigraphy as a Formal Stratigraphic Method 3
Alcides Nobrega Sial, Claudio Gaucher, Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar, and Valderez Pinto Ferreira 2. Glossary of Chemostratigraphy 27
Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar, Alcides Nobrega Sial, Claudio Gaucher, and Valderez Pinto Ferreira Part II: Precambrian 3. The Archean¿Proterozoic Boundary and the Great Oxidation Event 35
Claudio Gaucher and Robert Frei 4. Chronochemostratigraphy of Platform Sequences across the Paleoproterozoic¿Mesoproterozoic Transition 47
Farid Chemale Junior and Felipe Guadagnin 5. Chemostratigraphy of the Mesoproterozoic¿Neoproterozoic Transition 73
Juan Carlos SilväTamayo, Nova Giovanny, and Karol Tatiana Dussan¿Tapias 6. The Cryogenian¿Ediacaran Boundary in the Southern Amazon Craton 89
Afonso César Rodrigues Nogueira, Guilherme Raffaeli Romero, Evelyn Aparecida Mecenero Sanchez, Fábio Henrique Garcia Domingos, José Bandeira, Iara Maria dos Santos, Roberto Vizeu Lima Pinheiro, Joelson Lima Soares, Jean Michel Lafon, Jhon Willy Lopes Afonso, Hudson Pereira Santos, and Isaac Daniel Rudnitzki 7. The Ediacaran¿Cambrian Transition: A Resource¿Based Hypothesis for the Rise and Fall of the Ediacara Biota 115
Alan J. Kaufman Part III: Paleozoic 8. ¿13C Chemostratigraphy of the Ordovician¿Silurian Boundary Interval 145
Stig M. Bergström and Daniel Goldman 9. Chemostratigraphy across the Permian¿Triassic Boundary: The Effect of Sampling Strategies on Carbonate Carbon Isotope Stratigraphic Markers 159
Martin Schobben, Franziska Heuer, Melanie Tietje, Abbas Ghaderi, Dieter Korn, Christoph Korte, and Paul B. Wignall Part IV: Mesozoic 10. Chemostratigraphy across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary 185
Christoph Korte, Micha Ruhl, József Pálfy, Clemens Vinzenz Ullmann, and Stephen Peter Hesselbo 11. Jurassic¿Cretaceous Carbon Isotope Geochemistry-Proxy for Paleoceanography and Tool for Stratigraphy
211Helmut Weissert 12. Chemostratigraphy across the Cretaceous¿Paleogene (K¿Pg) Boundary: Testing the Impact and Volcanism Hypotheses 223
Alcides Nobrega Sial, Jiubin Chen, Luis Drude Lacerda, Robert Frei, John A. Higgins, Vinod Chandra Tewari, Claudio Gaucher, Valderez Pinto Ferreira, Simonetta Cirilli, Christoph Korte, José Antonio Barbosa, Natan Silva Pereira, and Danielle Santiago Ramos Part V: Cenozoic 13. Cenozoic Chemostratigraphy: Understanding the Most Recent Era of the Earth's History 261
Priyadarsi Debajyoti Roy, Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar, and Ramasamy Nagarajan Index 279
About the author
Alcides N. Sial, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Claudio Gaucher, University of the Republic, Uruguay Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar, Periyar University, India Valderez Pinto Ferreira, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
