Global Bio-Events: A Critical Approach Proceedings of the First International Meeting of the IGCP Project 216: “Global Biological Events in Earth History”

The IGCP Project 216 "Global biological events in earth history"....Pages 1-4
Towards a more critical approach to bio-events....Pages 5-16
Devonian events at the Ense area (Excursion to the Rheinisches Schiefer-gebirge)....Pages 17-21
Ecostratigraphic criteria for evaluating the magnitude, character and duration of bioevents....Pages 23-45
Global bioevents and the question of periodicity....Pages 47-61
Chemical and isotopic variations in the world ocean during Phanerozoic time....Pages 63-74
The role of oceanographic factors in the generation of global bio-events....Pages 75-91
Evolutionary changes in the Proterozoic....Pages 93-103
Global biological events in the late Precambrian....Pages 105-108
Precambrian-Cambrian boundary biotas and events....Pages 109-117
The faunal extinction event near the Ordovician-Silurian boundary: a climatically induced crisis....Pages 119-126
A big event of latest Ordovician in China....Pages 127-131
Ordovician-Silurian boundary event in Bohemia (Prague Basin-Barrandian area)....Pages 133-138
Early Ordovician eustatic cycles and their bearing on punctuations in early nematophorid (planktic) graptolite evolution....Pages 139-152
Global bio-events in the Ordovician?....Pages 153-159
Significant geological events in the Paleozoic record of the Southern Alps (Austrian part)....Pages 161-167
Reflection of possible global Devonian events in the Barrandian area, C.S.S.R.....Pages 169-179
Ammonoid evolution before, during and after the "Kellwasser-event" — revien and preliminary new results....Pages 181-188
Frasnian mass extinction — a single catastrophic event or cumulative?....Pages 189-197
Evolution of the last Tropidocoryphinae (Trilobita) during the Frasnian....Pages 199-201
Middle to Upper Devonian boundary beds of the Holy Cross Mts: Brachiopod responses to eustatic events....Pages 203-212
The Kellwasser event in Moravia....Pages 213-217
Geochemical analyses of the Late Devonian “Kellwasser Event” stratigraphic horizon at Steinbruch Schmidt (F.R.G.)....Pages 219-224
Upper Frasnian and Lower Tournaisian events and evolution of calcareous foraminifera — close links to climatic changes....Pages 225-236
Miospore correlation between North American, German and Uralian (Udmurtia) deep facies through Appalachian, Irish and Belgian platform and continental facies near the Devonian/Carboniferous boundary....Pages 237-240
Permian fusulinacean faunas of Thailand — event controlled evolution....Pages 241-248
Triassic Bryozoa and the evolutionary crisis of Paleozoic Stenolaemata....Pages 249-255
Biological events in the evolution of Mesozoic ostracoda....Pages 257-265
Effects and causes in a black shale event — the Toarcian Posidonia Shale of NW Germany....Pages 267-276
High-resolution event stratigraphy: regional and global Cretaceous Bio-events....Pages 277-335
Trace metal accumulation in black shales from the Cenomanian/Turonian Boundary Event....Pages 337-343
The Cenomanian-Turonian boundary event: sedimentary, faunal and geochemical criteria developed from stratigraphic studies in NW-Germany....Pages 345-351
Upper Cretaceous Event-Stratigraphy in Europe....Pages 353-362
The Deccan Trapps (India) and Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary events....Pages 363-370
Palaeofloristic and palaeoclimatic changes in the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods (Facts, problems and tasks)....Pages 371-373
Two examples of evolution controlled by large scale abiotic processes: Eocene nummulitids of the South-Pyrenean Basin and Cretaceous Charophyta of Western Europe....Pages 375-380
The diachronous C/T plankton extinction in the Danish Basin....Pages 381-384
Some biostratigraphic and paleogeo-graphic observations on the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in the Haymana Polatli Region (Central Turkey)....Pages 385-396
Macro-invertebrates and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary....Pages 397-409
Bio-events in the continental realm during the Cretaceous/Tertiary transition: a multidisciplinary approach....Pages 411-415
Global Tertiary climatic changes, paleophytogeography and phytostratigraphy....Pages 417-427
Reflections upon the changes of local Tertiary herpetofaunas to global events....Pages 429-442