Terrestrial depositional systems : deciphering complexities through multiple stratigraphic methods /
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Amsterdam ; Kidlington, Oxford ; Cambridge, MA :
Elsevier Ltd,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Terrestrial Depositional Systems: Deciphering Complexities through Multiple Stratigraphic Methods; Copyright; In Memoriam; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Building Local Biostratigraphic Models for the Upper Triassic of Western North America: Methods and Considerations; Introduction; Small-Scale Studies as the Foundation of Natural Science; The Historical Synthesis of Stratigraphy; Scales of Stratigraphic Models; Local Stratigraphic Models; Regional Stratigraphic Models; Global Stratigraphic Models; Constructing Local Stratigraphic Models
- Choosing the Size of the Local Study AreaField Data Documentation; Photographic Documentation; Collecting Paleontological Field Data; Documenting the Geographic Distribution of Beds for Lithostratigraphy; Determining the Stratigraphic Sequence and Geographic Distribution of Beds; Geologic Mapping as Stratigraphic Documentation; Other Methods of Lithostratigraphic Documentation; Measuring Sections; Building Local Biostratigraphic Models; Taxonomic Identification of Paleontological Specimens; Establishing a Testable Biozonation; Publication; Conclusions and Prospectus; Acknowledgments
- Systematic and Biostratigraphic Foundations for the Late Triassic Land Vertebrate ``FaunachronsQ́́uasibiochrons Characterized (but not Defined) by Multiple Taxa; Interval Eubiochrons Defined Using the FHAs of Particular Phytosaur Taxa; Interval Eubiozones Defined Using the LOks of Particular Phytosaur Taxa; Recent Complications to Phytosaur Systematics; Alpha Taxonomy and Phylogeny; Comments on the Clade Name Revisions of Kammerer et al. (2015); Proposed Reformulation of the Late Triassic Land Vertebrate ``Faunachronś́
- Proposals for Biozone, Biochronozone, and Biochron Definitions and ApplicationsRedefining ``Faunachrons ́́Boundaries Using Multiple Taxa; The Use of Provisional Biozone Reference Sections Instead of Biozone Type Sections; Combining Local and Regional Biostratigraphic and Geochronologic Information: Teilzones, Estimated Holochronozones, and Est ...; New Definitions for the Upper/Late Triassic Land Vertebrate Teilzones, Estimated Holochronozones, and Estimated Holochrons ...; The Otischalkian; The Adamanian; The Revueltian; The Apachean
- Application of Teilzone, Estimated Holochronozone, and Estimated Holochron Definitions