Aspects of a Stratigraphic System: The Devonian |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Palaeogeography and Sedimentary Environments | 18 |
THE MATERIALS OF STRATIGRAPHY | 25 |
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accumulations activity alluvial ammonoids Appalachian Arctic areas assemblages Australia basins belt biostratigraphic black shales Boucot brachiopods Canada carbonate Carboniferous changes China clastic climatic conodonts continental margins continents corals Cordilleran correlation cratonic deep-water deposits Devonian period Devonian rocks Devonian System distribution Early Devonian earth east eastern Eifelian Emsian environments epicontinental Europe evaporites evolution facies Famennian faunas figure formations Frasnian Geol geological geosynclinal Givetian groups Hercynian invertebrate lacustrine lagoonal Late Devonian limestones Lower Devonian major marine Middle Devonian miogeosynclinal Mountains mudstones non-marine North America northern occur oceanic Old Red Sandstone orogenic ostracods outcrops palaeogeography Palaeozoic pelagic Petrol Phanerozoic provinces realm recognised red beds reef reefal region regression sea level sedimentary sediments sequences shales shallow shallow-water shelf Silurian slope South southern Spec species strata stratigraphic stromatoporoids subsidence tectonic terrigenous thick tidal tinental Trace fossils transgression uplift Upper Devonian Urals vertebrate volcanic vonian western widespread Ziegler zone