A Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System, Part 1

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. This first volume (SP532) charts the history of the Ordovician System and explores significant advances in our understanding of its biostratigraphy, including more precise calibration of its timescale with tephra chronology and regional alignments using astrochronology and cyclostratigraphy. Changes in the world’s oceans, their shifting currents and sea levels, the biogeography of their biotas and the ambient climate are described and discussed against a background of changing palaeogeography. This first volume also includes syntheses of the Ordovician geology for most European countries, including historical key areas, such as Great Britain, Baltoscandia and Bohemia. The second volume (SP533) provides synthetic aspects of the Ordovician geology of most other parts of the world.

Contents

- The Ordovician System: Key concepts, events and its distribution across Europe / Harper, D. A. T., Lefebvre, B., Percival, I. G. and Servais, T.  

Conceptualizing the Ordovician Period
- A short history of the Ordovician System: from overlapping unit stratotypes to global stratotype sections and points / Harper, D. A. T., Meidla, T. and Servais, T.  
- Ordovician biostratigraphy: index fossils, biozones and correlation / Goldman, D., Leslie, S. A., Liang, Y. and Bergström, S. M.   
- Ordovician cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology / Sinnesael, M.
- Ordovician tephra distribution, tephrochronology and geochronology / McLaughlin, P. I., Normore, L., Sell, B. K. and Ramezani, J.  
- Ordovician plate tectonic and palaeogeographical maps / Scotese, C. R.
- Changing palaeobiogeography during the Ordovician Period / Servais, T., Harper, D. A. T., Kröger, B., Scotese, C., Stigall, A. L. and Zhen, Y.-Y.
- Seawater signatures of Ordovician climate and environment / Young, S. A., Edwards, C. T., Ainsaar, L., Lindskog, A. and Saltzman, M. R.  
- The Ordovician ocean circulation: a modern synthesis based on data and models / Pohl, A., Nardin, E., Vandenbroucke, T. R. A. and Donnadieu, Y.
- Terrestrialization in the Ordovician / Wellman, C. H., Cascales-Miñana, B. and Servais, T.

The Ordovician System in Europe
- A synopsis of the Ordovician System in its birthplace – Britain and Ireland / Molyneux, S. G., Harper, D. A. T., Cooper, M. R., Hollis, S. P., Raine, R. J., Rushton, A. W. A., Smith, M. P., Stone, P., Williams, M., Woodcock, N. H. and Zalasiewicz, J. A.  
- The Ordovician of Scandinavia: a revised regional stage Classification / Nielsen, A. T., Ahlberg, P., Ebbestad, J. O. R., Hammer, Ø., Harper, D. A. T., Lindskog, A., Rasmussen, C. M. Ø and Stouge, S.
- Ordovician of the Eastern Baltic palaeobasin and the Tornquist Sea margin of Baltica / Meidla, T., Ainsaar, L., Hints, O. and Radzevicius, S.
- Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Record of the Ordovician System in Poland: a Review / Trela, W.
- The Ordovician of France and neighbouring areas of Belgium and Germany / Lefebvre, B., Álvaro, J. J., Casas, J. M., Ghienne, J.-F., Herbosch, A., Loi, A., Monceret, E., Verniers, J., Vidal, M., Vizcaïno, D. and Servais, T.
- The Ordovician of Sardinia (Italy): from the ‘Sardic Phase’ to the end-Ordovician glaciation, palaeogeography and geodynamic context / Loi, A., Cocco, F., Oggiano, G., Funedda, A., Vidal, M., Ferretti, A., Leone, F., Barca, S., Naitza, S., Ghienne, J.-F. and Pillola, G. L.
- Ordovician of the Bohemian Massif / Kraft, P., Linnemann, U., Mergl, M., Bruthansová, J., Laibl, L. and Geyer, G.
- A global view on the Ordovician stratigraphy of southeastern Europe / Ferretti, A., Schönlaub, H. P., Sachanski, V., Bagnoli, G., Serpagli, E., Vai, G. B., Yanev, S., Radonjic, M., Balica, C., Bianchini, L., Colmenar, J. and Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C.

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