Resolving the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and SpaceChristopher R. Fielding, Tracy D. Frank, John L. Isbell "This volume summarizes new developments in understanding the longest-lived icehouse period in Phanerozoic Earth history, the late Paleozoic ice age. Resolving the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and Space provides summaries of existing and new data from the various Gondwanan continental relics, and also reviews stratigraphic successions from the paleotropical and temperate regions of Laurussia that preserve an indirect record of glaciation. It addresses the extent to which records of glaciation indicate protracted, long-term climatic austerity, as opposed to fluctuating, more dynamic climate, and provides new constraints on the timing of glaciation. Additionally, it tackles questions of synchroneity of glaciation across the various Gondwanan continental relics, and timing relationships between near-field and far-field records at greater levels of resolution than has been possible previously. Results point toward a dynamic icehouse regime that is comparable to the Cenozoic icehouse, and away from traditional interpretations of the late Paleozoic ice age as a single, protracted event that involved stable, long-lived ice centers."--Publisher's website. |
Contents
America | 17 |
NearField Records | 29 |
Stratigraphic record and facies associations of the late Paleozoic ice age | 41 |
South 12 | 47 |
Permian glacigenic deposits in the Transantarctic Mountains Antarctica | 59 |
Singlezircon UPb dating of CarboniferousPermian tuffs Namibia and | 83 |
Paraná Basin | 97 |
Sequence stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Late Carboniferous | 115 |
Influence of late Paleozoic Gondwana glaciations on the depositional evolution | 205 |
Recognition of Gondwanan glacial | 219 |
Changing influences | 235 |
Deciphering the midCarboniferous eustatic event in the central Appalachian | 249 |
Evidence for eustasy at the KinderhookianOsagean Mississippian boundary | 261 |
Pennsylvanian cyclothems in Midcontinent North America as farfield effects | 275 |
Paleosol archives of environmental and climatic history in paleotropical western | 291 |
Synthesis Papers | 305 |
Carboniferous glacigenic deposits of the protoPrecordillera of westcentral Argentina | 131 |
Direct responses to Gondwana glaciation | 143 |
Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous glacial records of South America | 161 |
A regional overview of the late Paleozoic glaciation in Oman | 175 |
FarField Records | 187 |
A review of the palynostratigraphy of Gondwanan Late Carboniferous to Early | 317 |
Late Paleozoic climate dynamics revealed by comparison of iceproximal stratigraphic | 331 |
The late Paleozoic ice ageA review of current understanding and synthesis | 343 |
3 | 349 |
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