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