A Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System, Part 2

About this book

The Ordovician was one of the longest of the geological periods, characterized by major magmatic and tectonic activity, an immense biodiversification, swings in climate and sea levels, and the first Phanerozoic mass extinction. A Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System is presented in two volumes in the Geological Society Special Publications series. Whereas the first volume (SP532) concentrates on general aspects and a synthesis of the Ordovician geology of Europe, this volume (SP533) includes reviews of Ordovician successions of most other parts of the world. The classic successions of the Ordovician basins of North America are presented, as well as those of China where several of the Ordovician Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points are defined. The volume also includes syntheses of the Ordovician geology of Africa, South America, most regions of Asia from the Near to the Far East along with Central Asia, as well as Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica.

Contents

- A journey through the Ordovician System around the world / Servais, T., Harper, D. A. T., Lefebvre, B. and Percival, I. G.
- Ordovician geology of Alaska / Dumoulin, J. A., Strauss, J. V. and Repetski, J. E.
- The Ordovician System in Greenland / Stouge, S., Rasmussen, C. M. Ø. and Harper, D. A. T.
- The Ordovician System of Canada: an extensive stratigraphic record of Laurentian shallow water platforms and deep marine basins / Desrochers, A., Jin, J. and Dewing, K.
- Ordovician of the conterminous United States / McLaughlin, P. I. and Stigall, A. L.
- Ordovician stratigraphy and biota of Mexico / Cuen-Romero, F. J., Buitrón-Sánchez, B. E., Beresi, M. S., Palafox-Reyes, J. J. and Monreal, R.
- The Ordovician of southern South America / Waisfeld, B. G., Benedetto, J. L., Toro, B. A., Voldman, G. G., Rubinstein, C. V., Heredia, S., Assine, M. L., Vaccari, N. E. and Niemeyer, H.
- The Ordovician System of South Africa: a Review / Penn-Clarke, C. R., Browning, C. and Harper, D. A. T.
- The Ordovician record of North and West Africa: unravelling sea-level variations, Gondwana tectonics, and the glacial impact / Ghienne, J.-F., Abdallah, H., Deschamps, R., Guiraud, M., Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C., Konaté, M., Meinhold, G., Moussa, A. and Rubino, J.-L.
- The Ordovician System in the Levant region (Middle East) and southern Turkey: review of depositional facies, fauna and stratigraphy / Elicki, O., Meischner, T., Gürsu, S., Ghienne, J.-F., Masri, A., Moumani, K. A. and Demircan, H.
- The Ordovician of the Middle East (Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan) / Ghobadi Pour, M. and Popov, L. E.
- The Ordovician of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) / Ghobadi Pour, M., Popov, L. E., Kim, A. I., Abduazimova, Z. M., Mikolaichuk, A. V., Kim, I. A., Ospanova, N., Erina, M. V., Salimova, F. A., Klishevich, I., Saidov, M. S., Davlatov, N. H., Abdiyev, N. H., Koldybekov, O. Y., Gordeev, D., Rustamov, S. T. and Yangiboev, S. B.
- Ordovician of Kazakhstan / Popov, L., Zhylkaidarov, A., Zhemchuzhnikov, V., Stepanets, W., Gridina, N. M. and Antonyuk, R. M.
- Ordovician strata of the Indian subcontinent / Myrow, P. M., Hughes, N. C. and Singh, B. P.
- Regional synthesis of the Ordovician geology and stratigraphy of China / Zhang, Y., Zhan, R., Zhen, Y. Y., Wang, W., Liang, Y., Fang, X., Wu, R., Yan, K., Zhang, J. and Li, W.
- The Ordovician of the Korean Peninsula: a synthesis / Lee, J.-H., Cho, S. H., Choh, S.-J., Hong, J., Lee, B.-S., Lee, D.-C., Lee, D.-J., Lee, S.-B., Park, J. and Woo, J.
- Ordovician Japan: geotectonic setting and palaeogeography / Isozaki, Y.
- Ordovician geology of the Sibumasu Block, SE Asia / Agematsu, S. and Oo, T.
- Current knowledge of the Ordovician System in Antarctica / Percival, I. G., Glen, R. A. and Zhen, Y. Y.
- The Ordovician System in Australia and New Zealand / Percival, I. G., Zhen, Y. Y. and Normore, L.

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