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STRATI 2013

First International Congress on Stratigraphy

At the Cutting Edge of Stratigraphy

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Earth Sciences DepartmentCentre in Geological Science and EngineeringInternational Commission on Stratigraphy (IUGS)

EditorsRogério RochaJoão PaisJosé Carlos KullbergCICEGe, Departamento de Ciências

da TerraFaculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaUniversidade Nova de LisboaCaparicaPortugal

Stanley FinneyGeological SciencesCalifornia State University, Long BeachLong Beach, CAUSA

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Foreword

This 1st International Congress on Stratigraphy provides an excellent opportunityfor presenting an inventory of our discipline more than 200 years after its birth andone century after the publication of the first treatise on stratigraphy (Grabau 1913)which established this subject as an entity in its own right in the area of geosci-ences. The state of the art presented by the authors of the plenary conferences andby the coordinators of the different topics makes it possible to highlight the maintrends and prospects.

To begin with, it should be remembered that stratigraphy is not an abstractscience or simply the fruit of computer modelling. It is an observation science thatmust, as a priority, be based on field data followed by analysis in the laboratory,and on regional studies that may combine a very great variety of analyticalmethods. These are the essential references—after having eliminated the localcontingencies—for more global interpretations.

Four major features can be recognized in the development of our science overthe last few decades, driven in particular by oil exploration and the study of theoceans: diversification of methods, putting into question, multidisciplinarity andextension of the fields of application.

Diversification of methods. Besides biostratigraphy which historically was thefirst approach used for dating and correlations, many other approaches are nowused such as: genetic stratigraphies, chemostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy(mainly geomagnetic field reversals), cyclostratigraphy, clays mineralogy, isotopegeochronology, tephrochronology and so on.

Putting into question by objective and critical analysis of the different tech-niques and thanks to the intersecting perspectives of researchers using differenttools. Biostratigraphy has thus grown stronger through a multiplication of indexfossils (particularly in micropaleontology) and has been enriched by fruitfulexchanges with other approaches (palaeoecology, taphonomy, sedimentology,palaeogeography, molecular biology, isotope geochronology, magnetostratigra-phy) which have made it possible to understand better the signification of theappearance and disappearance of taxa, evaluate any diachronism of FAD and LADand, inversely, to contribute effectively to the reconstitution of palaeoenviron-ments on various scales and to constraint timetrees. In chemostratigraphy, it hasbeen possible to evidence the contradictory signification of various signals or the

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different durations of negative and positive carbon isotope spikes. Althoughcyclostratigraphy may provide incomparable metronomes, it would seem that thedurations of the various orbital parameters are not constant because of the chaoticbehavior of the solar system. Only, the 405Kyr eccentricity is stable at least overthe last 250 Ma and can be used for astronomical calibration of Mesozoic andPalaeozoic.

Multidisciplinarity Its growing importance, in a spirit of integrated stratigra-phy, has three favorable consequences:

– greater dating and correlation accuracy, by means of an iterative process ofexchanges between the results of various stratigraphic methods, for instance, bycoupling the results of isotopic chronotratigraphy with cyclostratigraphicsequences;

– perfecting of the Geological Time Scale which provides the temporal frame-work for the geosciences. The GSSPs put in place gradually since 1977 mustprovide stratotype boundaries materializing the base of each stage by using themost varied tools to propose real-time lines identifiable on the scale of the globe.A contrario, experience shows that an insufficient diversity of the specificmarkers is currently calling into question certain limits that must be reviewed.Furthermore, various GSSPs must still be determined and validated, in partic-ular for the Carboniferous, Permian and Cretaceous. As for the Quaternary, mustthe Anthropocene—attempt to recognize formally the substantial acceleration inhuman deduced changes to our planet during historical times—be treated as aformal chronostratigraphic unit with a golden spike?

– the research of causes for planetary changes. The major tendency of stratigraphyis now to try building unitary models in the organization of geological objectswhich are likely to show and explain the existence of logical relations betweenstratigraphic signals. But it must be borne in mind that nothing is ever defini-tively acquired: ‘‘a geologist, like any detective, must always work with mul-tiple hypotheses and as many tools as possible to help narrow the possibilitiesand to discover the fascinating history of our world.’’

Extension of the fields of application. The utilization of stratigraphicapproaches is not limited simply to sedimentary entities and our planet. Volcanicformations are also concerned, whether for elaborating a Time Scale of VolcanicProcesses or for mapping volcanic regions involving the use of information pro-vided by lithostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, isotope geochronology and evensequence stratigraphy. And now, various stratigraphic methods are also being usedto study planets (Moon, Mars, Venus, etc.) in order to establish a Planetary TimeScale comparable to the Geological Time Scale for Earth.

The great success of this Congress—which can be seen not only in the numberof contributors and the quality of their works, but also in the great diversity ofnationalities present—bears witness to the vitality of our science and to the need toorganize such forums periodically, making it possible to confront concepts,methods, and results. So, you should count on a sequel to this.

Jacques ReyHonorary President of STRATI 2013

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Chairs and Committees

Honorary President

Jacques Rey, Emeritus Professor, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Organizing Committee

Stanley Finney, President of ICS/IUGS, USABertrand Lefèbvre, President of the Comité Français de Stratigraphie, FranceRogério Rocha, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de

LisboaJoão Pais, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de LisboaJosé Carlos Kullberg, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de

LisboaPaulo Legoinha, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de

LisboaPaulo Caetano, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de LisboaLígia Castro, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de LisboaOctávio Mateus, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de

LisboaMartim Chichorro, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de

Lisboa

Sponsorship

GALP Energia SGPS, S. A.Partex Oil and GasInstitut Français du Portugal

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Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL)Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT)Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Engenharia Geológica (CICEGe)

Support

Association Paléontologique Française (APF)Association of European Geological Societies (AEGS)Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD)Comité Français de Stratigraphie (CFS)Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG)Groupe Français du Crétacé (GFC)Groupe Français du Paléozoïque (GFP)Groupe Français pour l’Étude du Jurassique (GFEJ)International Association for Geoethics (IAGETH)International Commission on Stratigraphy (IUGS)Regional Committee on Atlantic Neogene Stratigraphy (RCANS)Rite in the RainSociedade Geológica de Portugal (SGP)

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Scientific Committee

Alan Vaughan (UK) João Pais (P)Ana Azerêdo (P) José Abel Flores (E)Andrzej Wierbowski (Pl) Joszef Palfy (H)Andrew Davies (UK) Juan C. Gutiérrez-Marco (E)António Ferreira Soares (P) Kenneth T. Ratcliffe (UK)Artur Sá (P) Kenneth Tanaka (USA)Bertrand Lefèbvre (F) Laia Alegret (E)Brendan Murphy (Can) Louis Jacobs (USA)Brian Pratt (Can) Luís Vítor Duarte (P)Bruno Galbrun (F) Martin J. Head (Can)Bruno Granier (F) Michael Holz (Br)Bruno Vrielynck (F) Michel Laurin (F)Cathy Quantin-Nataf (F) Miguel Telles Antunes (P)Christian Meister (CH) Moussa Masrour (Mar)Christiane Ruget (F) Noel Vanderberghe (B)Cristino Dabrio (E) Patrick de Wever (F)Elise Nardin (F) Philip L. Gibbard (UK)Eric Buffetaut (F) Pierre Muzzi Magalhães (Br)Emanuela Mattioli (F) Robert Iannuzzi (Br)Fátima Abrantes (P) Rogério Rocha (P)Francis Hirsch (J) Shen Shuzhong (Cn)Gabriel Gutierrez-Alonso (E) Simonetta Monechi (I)Gianluca Groppelli (I) Silvia Gardin (I)Helmut Weissert (CH) Sixto R. Fernández-Lopes (E)Igor Villa (CH) Slah Boulila (Tun)Jacques Rey (F) Stanley Finney (USA)James Ogg (USA) Stephen Hesselbo (UK)Javier Martín-Chivelet (E) Susana Damborenea (Arg)Jean François Deconinck (F) Ulf Linnemann (D)Jesus Martinez-Frias (E) Vitor Abreu (Br)Jingeng Sha (Ch) Thijs von Kolfschoten (N)Joan Marti Molist (E) Zhonghe Zhou (CN)

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Scientific Program

Theme A. Principles and Methods of Stratigraphy

Plenary session: Stanley Finney (USA)

Themes Coordinators

Methods, technologyand new trends

Helmut Weissert (CH) Brian Pratt (Can)

Events Stratigraphy Roberto Iannuzzi (Br) Shen Shuzhong (Cn)Paleogene events,

Evolution andStratigraphy

Simonetta Monechi (I) Noel Vandenberghe (B) Laia Alegret(E)

Cyclostratigraphy andrecent developmentsin the astronomicalcalibration of theGeological Time Scale

Silvia Gardin (I) Bruno Galbrun (F) Slah Boulila(Tun)

GSSP and Stratotypes Stephen Hesselbo (UK) Markus Aretz (D/F)Advances in isotopic

GeochronologyIgor Villa(CH)

Teaching of Stratigraphy,geological heritageand Geoethics

Jesús Martinez-Frias (E)

Patrick de Wever (F)

Planetary Stratigraphy (Mars) Kenneth Tanaka (USA) Cathy Quantin-Nataf (F)

Phylogeny,Palaeobiodiversity,and Palaeogeography

Joseph Palfy (H) Michel Laurin (F)

Paleozoic Stratigraphy andPalaeogeography

Elise Nardin (F) ThijsVandenbroucke(B)

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Theme B. Regional Stratigraphy

Plenary session: Bruno Vrielynck (F)

Theme C. Applied Stratigraphy

Plenary session: Vitor Abreu (Br)

Themes Coordinators

Regional Stratigraphy s. l. Andrzej Wierzbowski (Pl) Francis Hirsch (J)Stratigraphy of Iberian

and Mediterranean BasinsCristino Dabrio (E) Moussa Masrour (Mar)

Rodinia and Gondwana Stratigraphyand geochronology

Ulf Linnemann (D) Alan Vaughan (UK)

Assemblage and breakup of Pangea Brendan Murphy (Can) Gabriel Gutierrez-Alonso (E)

Themes Coordinators

Sequence Stratigraphy,SeismicStratigraphy, andSeismicGeomorphology

Michael Holz (Br) Andy Davies (UK)

Chemostratigraphy,Magnetostratigraphy,Chronology,Palaeoenvironments,and correlations

Jean FrançoisDeconinck (F)

James Ogg (USA)

Stratigraphy applied to oilindustry

Kenneth T. Ratcliffe(UK)

Pierre MuzziMagalhães (Br)

The Quaternary Systemand its FormalSubdivision

Martin Head (Can) Philip Gibbard (UK) Thijs vanKolfschoten (NL)

Fossil vertebratesin Stratigraphy

Louis Jacobs (USA) Eric Buffetaut (F)

Fossil invertebrates inStratigraphy

Sixto Fernández-López (E)

Jingeng Sha (Cn)

Microfossils inStratigraphy

Bruno Granier (F) Emanuela Mattioli (F)

Terrestrial MesozoicStratigraphy

Miguel T. Antunes(P)

Zhonghe Zhou (Cn)

Volcanic Stratigraphy Gianluca Groppelli(I)

Joan Marti (E)

Stratigraphy inPalaeoceanography

Fátima Abrantes (P) José Abel Flores (E)

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Editorial

Since the beginning of this century, the International Geological Congress hasexamined the decisive role played by Earth Sciences in achieving a greater qualityof life for humanity. Topics such as the study of current and past climate change,the development of sustainable energy technology, environmental impact assess-ment, and geological site selection for industrial infrastructures are crucial to thefuture planning of a truly sustainable form of development. At the base of all thesedomains, Geosciences and geologists, broadly speaking, have come, and mustcontinue, to play an increasingly leading role. Except in a few selected cases, thisneed was previously ignored by policy-makers in many of our countries, giventheir general lack of interest in the Geosciences. However, we are now witnessinga new attitude, perhaps influenced by the global needs of the mining and oilindustries.

Let it be said here that no discipline within the Geosciences is as comprehensiveof scientific knowledge as that of stratigraphy. Stratigraphy is a geosciencespeciality that involves numerous researchers and practitioners worldwide and hasmany applications, with growing importance in scientific, technological, eco-nomic, and environmental fields.

The International Congress on Stratigraphy—STRATI 2013 followed thedecision to internationalize the STRATI conferences previously organized by theFrench Committee of Stratigraphy, the last one of which was held in Paris in 2010.The Congress is being held under the auspices of the International Commission onStratigraphy (IUGS), and it has been organized within the Department of EarthSciences and the Research Centre in Geological Science and Engineering from theFaculty of Sciences and Technology of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NewUniversity of Lisbon) (Portugal).

The overall theme, ‘‘At the Cutting Edge of Stratigraphy,’’ reflects the recentadvances in research in the field of Stratigraphy, new methodologies, applicationsfor industry, and needs for society in general. The Congress included a vastprogram comprising 24 sessions covering three main themes: A—Principles andmethods, B—Regional Stratigraphy, and C—Applied Stratigraphy.

The progress of scientific knowledge in this area is remarkable and theincreasingly important interaction of stratigraphy with other areas of theGeosciences. The volume published under STRATI 2013, with texts about

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the ‘‘state-of-the-art’’ on the various topics discussed in the Congress, and authoredby members of the Scientific Committee, shows that the diversity of methods used instudies of this nature and the stratigraphic advancement of such knowledge in recentyears already go beyond our planet.

The Organizing Committee was honored by the presence of such a vast andcompetent scientific community and thanks all for your participation. Particularthanks are due to colleagues, students, supporters, and sponsorships whoparticipated in the organization of the Congress and whose support was essentialfor the high scientific quality of the communications that were presented, andwhich are now published.

Lisbon, October 2013 Rogério RochaJoão Pais

José Carlos KullbergStanley Finney

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Contents

Part I Theme A: Principles and Methods—Methods,Technology and New Trends

The Fate of Formal Lithostratigraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Geza Csaszar

Sequence Stratigraphy of Continental Rift Basins I:A Conceptual Discussion of Discrepant Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Michael Holz, Edric Troccoli and Marcelo Vieira

Sequence Stratigraphy of Continental Rift Basins II:An Example from the Brazilian Cretaceous Recôncavo Basin . . . . . . 15Michael Holz, Edric Troccoli and Marcelo Vieira

The Triassic Timescale 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Spencer G. Lucas and Lawrence H. Tanner

Part II Theme A: Principles and Methods—Events Stratigraphy

Size Variation of Conodonts During the Smithian–Spathian(Early Triassic) Global Warming Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Yanlong Chen, Richard J. Twitchett, Haishui Jiang, Sylvain Richoz,Xulong Lai, Chunbo Yan, Yadong Sun, Xiaodan Liu and Lina Wang

Latest Bajocian Bio-Events of Ammonite Immigrationand Colonization in the Tarapaca Basin (Northern Chile):Palaeoenvironmental Implications for Sequence Stratigraphy . . . . . . 29Sixto Rafael Fernandez-Lopez and Guillermo Baltazar Chong-Diaz

Dinocyst Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironmental Interpretationof the Cretaceous–Palaeogene Boundaryat Stevns Klint, Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Meriel E. J. Fitz Patrick, Malcolm B. Hart and David A. Forber

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Cretaceous–Palaeogene Boundary Events in Texas: New Sections,Revised Micropalaeontological Interpretations, and Clarificationof the Stratigraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Malcolm Hart, Andrew Leighton, Tom Yancey, Matthew Hampton,Chengjie Liu, Brent Miller, Christopher Smart and Richard Twitchett

Bio- and Lithostratigraphic Markers of the Mid-PennsylvanianEvent and Their Application to Detailed Stratigraphyand Correlation (East European Platform) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Olga L. Kossovaya, Denis I. Leontiev and Tatyana N. Isakova

Impact of the Boda Event (Late Ordovician) on High-LatitudePeri-Gondwanan Faunas: An Echinoderm Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . 49Bertrand Lefebvre, Yamouna Makhlouf, Elise Nardin,Ahmed Nedjari and Alexandra Touzeau

Part III Theme A: Principles and Methods—PaleogeneEvents, Evolution and Stratigraphy

The Alano Section: The Candidate GSSP for the Priabonian Stage . . . 55Claudia Agnini, Jan Backman, Eliana Fornaciari, Simone Galeotti,Luca Giusberti, Paolo Grandesso, Luca Lanci, Simonetta Monechi,Giovanni Muttoni, Heiko Pälike, Maria Letizia Pampaloni,Johannes Pignatti, Isabella Premoli Silva, Isabella Raffi,Domenico Rio, Lorenzo Rook and Cristina Stefani

Differential Effects of Bioturbation on Benthic ForaminiferalDistribution Across the Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K–Pg)Boundary at Bidart (Southwestern France) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Laia Alegret, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar and Alfred Uchman

Benthic Foraminifera, Food Supply, and Carbonate SaturationAcross the Cretaceous–Palaeogene Boundary:Southern Ocean Site 690 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Laia Alegret and Ellen Thomas

Palaeogene Carbonates of Oman: Lithofacies and Stratigraphy . . . . 71Michaela Bernecker

A Revised Palaeocene (Teurian) Dinoflagellate Cyst Zonationfrom Eastern New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75Erica M. Crouch, Pi Suhr Willumsen, Denise Kulhanekand Samantha Gibbs

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In Search of the Bartonian (Middle Eocene) GSSP (II):Preliminary Results from the Oyambre Section (Northern Spain) . . . 79Jaume Dinarès-Turell, Aitor Payros, Simonetta Monechi,Xabier Orue-Etxebarria, Silvia Ortiz, Estibaliz Apellanizand Gilen Bernaola

Early Eocene Cerithioidean Gastropods from a SubtropicalCoast Environment (South–Central Pyrenees, Spain) . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Stefano Dominici and Thorsten Kowalke

Identification of the Palaeocene–Eocene Boundary Basedon Larger Foraminifers in Deposits of the Palaeogene AdriaticCarbonate Platform, Southwestern Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Katica Drobne, Jernej Jez, Vlasta Cosovic, Bojan Ogorelec,Barbara Stenni, Elena Zakrevskaya and Lukas Hottinger

The Bartonian (Middle Eocene) GSSP: Historical Considerationsand Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Richard H. Fluegeman

Planktonic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy Acrossthe Eocene–Oligocene Boundary in the North Adriatic Sea . . . . . . . . 99Vlasta Premec Fucek and Morana Hernitz Kucenjak

The Bottaccione Section at Gubbio, Central Italy: A ClassicPalaeocene Tethyan Setting Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Simone Galeotti, Matteo Moretti, Carlotta Cappelli, James Phillips,Luca Lanci, Kate Littler, Simonetta Monechi, Maria Rose Petrizzo,Isabella Premoli Silva and James C. Zachos

New Integrated High-Resolution Dinoflagellate Cyst Stratigraphyand Litho- and Chemostratigraphy from the Parisand Dieppe–Hampshire Basins for the ‘‘Sparnacian’’ . . . . . . . . . . . . 107Alina I. Iakovleva, Florence Quesnel, Christian Dupuis,Jean-Yves Storme, Noémie Breillat, Roberto Magioncalda,Paola Iacumin, Christine Fléhoc, Emile Roche, Thierry Smith,Jean-Marc Baele, Johan Yans and Jan De Coninck

Palynology as a High-Resolution Tool for Cyclostratigraphyin Middle Eocene Lacustrine Sediments: The OutstandingRecord of Messel (Germany) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113Olaf K. Lenz, Volker Wilde and Walter Riegel

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Mammalian Evolution Across the Palaeocene–EoceneTransition in Central Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Jin Meng and Yuanqing Wang

Biostratigraphy of the Middle Eocene Kohat Formation,Himalayan Fold and Thrust Belt, Northern Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Kamran Mirza

Correlation Between Shallow Benthic Zones and CalcareousPlankton Zones at the Bartonian–Priabonian Transition:Preliminary Results from the Varignano Section(Trento Province, Northern Italy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Cesare A. Papazzoni, Alessandra Moretti, Valeria Luciani,Eliana Fornaciari and Luca Giusberti

In Search of the Bartonian (Middle Eocene) GSSP (I): Potentialin the Basque–Cantabrian and Aquitanian Basins(Western Pyrenees) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Aitor Payros, Jaume Dinarès-Turell, Xabier Orue-Etxebarria,Simonetta Monechi, Silvia Ortiz, Estibaliz Apellanizand Gilen Bernaola

A New Low- to Middle-Latitude Biozonation and RevisedBiochronology of Palaeogene Calcareous Nannofossils . . . . . . . . . . . 137Isabella Raffi, Claudia Agnini, Jan Backman, Eliana Fornaciari,Domenico Rio and Heiko Pälike

Lower Eocene to Lower Miocene Stratigraphyand Palaeoenvironment of ODP Site 643A, Norwegian Sea . . . . . . . . 143Kasia K. Sliwinska, Stefan Schouten and Karen Dybkjær

Oligocene Planktonic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy: Current Stateof the Art and New Calibrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Bridget Wade, William Berggren, Paul Pearson and Jamie Lakin

Palaeogene Marine Stratigraphy in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Xiaoqiao Wan, Guobiao Li and Tian Jiang

Rapid Warming at the PETM and Its Influence on Vegetationin Denmark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Pi Suhr Willumsen, Bo Pagh Schultz and Rene Sylvester

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Mass Extinction and Turnover Recordedat the Cretaceous–Palaeogene Boundary in the IzehSection (Zagros Basin, Southwestern Iran) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Dalila Zaghbib-Turki and Bijan Biranvand

Criteria for the Bartonian Boundaries in NortheasternPeri-Tethyan and Tethyan Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Elena Zakrevskaya

Part IV Theme A: Principles and Methods—Cyclostratigraphyand Recent Developments in the AstronomicalCalibration of the Geological Time Scale

Astronomical Calibration of the Valanginian ‘‘Weissert’’ Episode:The Orpierre Marl–Limestone Succession (Vocontian Basin,Southeastern France). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Guillaume Charbonnier, Slah Boulila, Silvia Gardin,Stéphanie Duchamp-Alphonse, Thierry Adatte, Jorge E. Spangenberg,Karl B. Föllmi, Christophe Colin and Bruno Galbrun

Orbital Chronology of the Lower–Middle Aptian:Palaeoenvironmental Implications (Serre Chaitieu Section,Vocontian Basin) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181Jean-François Deconinck, Julie Ghirardi, Mathieu Martinez,Ludovic Bruneau, Emmanuelle Pucéat and Pierre Pellenard

Extending Back the Palaeogene Astronomical Time Scale:An Integrated Analysis of the Upper Maastrichtian Stratain the Basque Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185Jaume Dinarès-Turell, Victoriano Pujalte, Kristalina Stoykovaand Javier Elorza

Settling the Danian Astronomical Time Scale: A ProspectiveGlobal Unit Stratotype at Zumaia, Basque Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191Jaume Dinarès-Turell, Thomas Westerhold, Victoriano Pujalte,Ursula Röhl and Dick Kroon

Ages of the Fish Canyon Sanidine Standardand the K–Pg Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Frits Hilgen and GTSnext Research Team

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A 65-Myr-Long Astronomical Time Scale for the MesozoicDeep-Sea Sequence (Inuyama, Japan): Implicationsfor the Triassic–Jurassic Time Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Masayuki Ikeda, Ryuji Tada and Hironobu Sakuma

Cyclostratigraphy of a Tithonian–Valanginian Carbonate RampSuccession, Southern Mendoza, Argentina: Implicationsfor the Jurassic–Cretaceous Boundary in the Neuquén Basin . . . . . . 205Diego A. Kietzmann and Ricardo M. Palma

Astrochronology of the Valanginian Stage from GSSPCandidates and Hypostratotype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209Mathieu Martinez, Jean-François Deconinck, Pierre Pellenard,Stéphane Reboulet and Laurent Riquier

Permian Stratigraphic Record of the Volga–Kama Region:Cyclic and Fractal Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213N. G. Nurgalieva and D. K. Nurgaliev

Limitations of the Astronomically Tuned Timescale:A Case Study from the Newark Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217Lawrence H. Tanner and Spencer G. Lucas

Astronomically Calibrated Timing, Mineralogy, and Geochemistryof the Upper Campanian Planktonic ForaminiferRadotruncana Calcarata Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221Michael Wagreich, Johann Hohenegger and Stephanie Neuhuber

Part V Theme A: Principles and Methods—GSSPand Stratotypes

Redefining the Devonian–Carboniferous Boundary:An Overview of Problems and Possible Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227Markus Aretz

High-Resolution Carbon-Isotope Stratigraphyof the Cambrian–Ordovician GSSP: An Enhanced InternationalCorrelation Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233Karem Azmy, Gabriella Bagnoli, Svend Stouge and Uwe Brand

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The Montalbano Jonico Section (Southern Italy): A Candidatefor the GSSP of the Ionian Stage (Lower–MiddlePleistocene Boundary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239N. Ciaranfi, G. Aiello, D. Barra, A. Bertini, A. Girone,P. Maiorano, M. Marino and P. Petrosino

Thuoux and Saint-Pierre d’Argençon Sections (Subalpine Basin,Southeastern France): Case Studies of Ammonite Biostratigraphyfor the Potential Candidate Callovian–Oxfordian GSSP . . . . . . . . . . 243Dominique Fortwengler, Didier Marchand,Jacques Thierry and Pierre Pellenard

Calcareous Nannofossil Biochronology Aroundthe Callovian–Oxfordian Boundary of Three Potential GSSPCandidate Sections: Thuoux, Savournon, and Saint-Pierred’Argençon (Southeastern France) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247Silvia Gardin

Lower Moscovian Conodonts and Fusulinids: The Positionof the Lower Boundary of the Moscovian Stage (Pennsylvanian) . . . . 251Natalia V. Goreva and Tatiana N. Isakova

A Potential Lower–Middle Pleistocene GSSP with ExcellentMagnetostratigraphy Along the West Pacific Margin:The Chiba Section, Central Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257Osamu Kazaoka, Hisashi Nirei, Nobuyuki Aida, Hisao Kumai,Martin J. Head and Brad Pillans

Integrated Biostratigraphy of Calcareous Nannofossilsand Ammonoids. Implications for the Definition of the Stratotypeof the Berriasian–Valanginian Boundary (139.4 Ma). . . . . . . . . . . . . 261Samer Kenjo, Emanuela Mattioli, Stéphane Reboulet,Didier Bert and Kayed Ma’Loulleh

The Advantages of Giving the Bedoulian, Lower Substageof the Aptian, the Rank of a Full Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267Michel Moullade, Bruno Granier and Guy Tronchetti

Integrated Stratigraphy of the Potential Candidate OxfordianGSSP at Thuoux and Saint-Pierre d’Argençon (France) . . . . . . . . . . 271Pierre Pellenard, Anna-Chiara Bartolini, Slah Boulila,Pierre-Yves Collin, Dominique Fortwengler, Bruno Galbrun,Silvia Gardin, Vincent Huault, Emilia Huret, Didier Marchandand Jacques Thierry

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Russian GSSP Candidate Sections for the Jurassic System . . . . . . . . 277Mikhail Rogov and Victor Zakharov

Correlation Between the Type Chattian in NW Europeand the Rupelian–Chattian Candidate GSSP in Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . 283K. K. Sliwinska, C. Heilmann-Clausen and E. Thomsen

On the Proposed Oxfordian–Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic)Boundary Stratotype and Its Potential for Correlation . . . . . . . . . . . 287Andrzej Wierzbowski and Bronisław A. Matyja

Part VI Theme A: Principles and Methods—Advancesin Isotopic Geochronology

The First Case Study of 230Th–U Dating of Buried WoodRemnants from Siberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293Fedor Maksimov, Vladislav Kuznetsov,Stanislav Laukhin and Sergey Larin

Part VII Theme A: Principles and Methods—Teachingof Stratigraphy, Geological Heritage and Geoethics

Virtual Tours Through Earth’s History and Palaeoclimate:Examples from the Piemonte (Northwestern Italy)Geoheritage (PROGEO-Piemonte Project) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299C. Bertok, F. Lozar, A. Magagna, E. Giordano, A. d’Atri,F. Dela Pierre, M. Natalicchio, L. Martire, P. Clari,D. Violanti and L. Ghiraldi

Geological and Cultural Routes of the Arrábida Breccia:A Contribution to the Nomination of Arrábida forUNESCO’s Mixed World Heritage List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303José Carlos Kullberg, Cristina Coelho and António Prego

The ABCGheritage Project: A Tool for Geo-Education . . . . . . . . . . 311Jouni Pihlaja and Peter Johansson

Stratigraphy and Conservation of Cultural Heritage:the Example of Rupestrian Churches of Cappadocia (Turkey) . . . . . 315N. Rovella, S. Marabini and G. M. Crisci

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Part VIII Theme A: Principles and Methods—PlanetaryStratigraphy (Mars)

Liquefaction Features. A Comparison Between the EmiliaEpicentral Area (Italy) and the Cerberus Fossae Region (Mars) . . . . 323Francesca Cannarsa, Gian Gabriele Ori and Vittorio Scisciani

‘‘Unconformity-Bounded’’ Stratigraphic Units in the SouthPolar Layered Deposits (Promethei Lingula, Mars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331Luca Guallini, Angelo Pio Rossi, Sebastian Emanuel Lauro,Lucia Marinangeli, Elena Pettinelli and Roberto Seu

Stratigraphic Analysis of the Depositional Sequencein Danielson Crater, Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337Alessio Murana and Thomas Kneissl

Equatorial Layered Deposits in Arabia Terra, Mars:Stratigraphy and Process Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343Monica Pondrelli, Angelo Pio Rossi, Laetitia Le Deit,Mihaela Glamoclija, Barbara Cavalazzi, Frank Fueten,Stephan van Gasselt, Ernst Hauber and Fulvio Franchi

Application of Sequence-Stratigraphic Concepts to Mars:Eberswalde Crater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349Monica Pondrelli, Angelo Pio Rossi, Loredana Pompilioand Lucia Marinangeli

Fluvio–Lacustrine Sedimentation and Tectonic Influence,Lunae Planum (Mars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355Francesco Salese, Gian Gabriele Ori, Monica Pondrelliand Goro Komatsu

Global Distribution of Stratified Deposits on Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361Kathryn M. Stack, John P. Grotzinger, Jennifer L. Griffesand Ryan N. Farley

Part IX Theme A: Principles and Methods—Phylogeny,Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeogeography

Recent Progress in Assessing Palaeobiodiversityand Its Evolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367Michel Laurin

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Fusulinid Diversification and Contemporaneous Sea-Level Changein the Dian-qian-gui Basin During the Early and MiddlePermian, South China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371Shi Yukun

Part X Theme A: Principles and Methods—PaleozoicStratigraphy and Palaeogeography

Stratigraphy and Carboniferous Terrigenous SedimentationSettings of the Eastern Flank of the Pre-Caspian Depression . . . . . . 379L. Akhmetshina and A. Kan

The Montalto Formation: A Pre- to Basal Ordovician Successionin the Dúrico-Beirã Area (Northern Portugal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381Helena Couto and Jasper Knight

Biostratigraphic Significance of Lower Cisuralian Palynoflorafrom Apillapampa, Bolivia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385M. M. Di Pasquo, G. W. Grader, R. Iannuzzi, P. Isaacson,P. A. Souza and E. Díaz-Martínez

Precambrian and Cambrian Regional Stratigraphy of Mongolia . . . . 391D. Dorjnamjaa, B. Enkhbaatar and G. Altanshagai

Sea-Level History During the Birth of a Foreland Basin:The Famennian–Visean of ‘‘Velbert 4’’, WesternmostRhenish Massif, Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397Hans-Georg Herbig, Daria Lobova and Varinnia Seekamp

The Presence of Callipterids in the Permian of NortheasternBrazil: Stratigraphic and Phytogeographical Implications . . . . . . . . . 403R. Iannuzzi and M. C. Langer

Pridolian to Early Eifelian Brachiopod Zonationof the Rhenish Massif (Germany). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407Ulrich Jansen

Miospore Zonation of the Givetian Stage and Its UpperBoundary in the Southeast of the Russian Plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413Valentina Mantsurova

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The Fezouata Biota (Central Anti-Atlas, Morocco):Biostratigraphy and Associated Environmental Conditionsof an Ordovician Burgess Shale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419Emmanuel Martin, Bertrand Lefebvre, Bernard Pittet, Jean Vannier,Ali Bachnou, Khadija El Hariri, Ahmid Hafid, Moussa Masrour,Fleur Noailles, Hendrik Nowak, Thomas Servais,Thijs R. A. Vandenbroucke, Peter Van Roy,Muriel Vidal and Daniel Vizcaïno

Progress Towards Correlating Palaeozoic French Stratawith the International Stratigraphic Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425Elise Nardin, Muriel Vidal, Vincent Perrier, Bertrand Lefebvre,Markus Aretz, Daniel Vizcaïno and J. Javier Álvaro

The Austrian Stratigraphic Chart 2004 (Sedimentary Successions)and Its Lithostratigraphic Units for the Palaeozoic Era(them). . . . . . 431Werner E. Piller and Bernhard Hubmann

Application of Wavelets to the Cyclostratigraphy of the UpperHomerian (Silurian) G _eluva Regional Stage in the Vidukl _e-61Deep Well (Western Lithuania) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437Sigitas Radzevicius, Andrej Spiridonov and Antanas Brazauskas

A Revised Correlation of Lower Ordovician SedimentaryRocks in the Central Iberian Zone (Portugal and Spain) . . . . . . . . . 441A. A. Sá, J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco, C. A. Meireles,D. C. García-Bellido and I. Rábano

Progress of the Permian Timescale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447Shu-zhong Shen and Charles M. Henderson

Sedimentological Causes of Some Problems in the CambrianStratigraphy of the Siberian Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453Sergey Sukhov

Carbon and Sulphur Isotopes from the CambrianSeries 2–Series 3 Boundary: Potential Proxiesfor Global Correlation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457Thomas Wotte

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Part XI Theme B: Regional Stratigraphy—RegionalStratigraphy s. l.

Lithostratigraphy and Lithofacies of the SiliciclasticBaqoroq Formation (Middle Triassic), Nakhlak Area,Central Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463S. Halimeh Hashemi Azizi and Payman Rezaee

Vertebrate and Miospore Assemblages from the Famennianof North Timan (Upper Devonian, Russia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469Pavel Beznosov, Valentina Mantsurova and Ervins Lukševics

Volcanism, Relative Sea-Level Change, and the StratigraphicRecord: An Oligocene Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475Andrea di Capua, Gianluca Groppelli and Giovanni Vezzoli

Environmental Reconstruction of the South-Western Partof the Maracujá River Basin, Brazil, Based on Palynologicaland Sedimentological Analysis and Carbonaceous-LayerRadiocarbon Dating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481Maria Paula Delicio, João Paulo Marques Machado Teixeira,Makênia Oliveira Soares Gomes and Maria de Fátima Rodrigues Sarkis

Stratigraphic and Sedimentological Characteristicsof Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous Sediments at Kösrelik–Kösrelikizigi(North of Ankara, Turkey) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487Arif Delikan and Nesrin Atasagun

Stratigraphic Features of the Yesilova Ophiolite, Burdur,South-Western Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493Adnan Doyen, Fuat Comlekciler and Kerim Kocak

Tectonic Implications of Deep-Marine Miocene Stratain the Western Andean Cordillera of South–CentralChile (40�–42�S) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499Alfonso Encinas, Patricio Zambrano, Pablo Bernabé, Kenneth Finger,Luis Buatois, Victor Valencia, Mark Fanning and Francisco Hervé

Sedimentation Rates in the Late Cretaceous EpicontinentalBasin in the Southern Part of the Russian Plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503Ruslan Gabdullin, Aleksey Ivanov and Natalya Badulina

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Lithological–Stratigraphic Characteristics of the Aptian–Cenomanian Sediments of the Abkhazian Zone,Western Caucasus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507Ruslan Gabdullin, Valentina Vishnevskaya, Ludmila Kopaevich,Ekaterina Scherbinina, Oleg Zerkal, Eugene Samarin,Elena Yakovishina and Natalya Badulina

Stratigraphic Schemes for the North Pacific Palaeogeneand Neogene: Geological Events, Biotic Evolution,and Biogeographical Scenarios for the Last 65 Myr . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511Yury B. Gladenkov

Pleistocene Deposits of the Swiss Northern Alpine Foreland:Stratigraphic Concept and Nomenclature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515Hans Rudolf Graf and Reto Burkhalter

The ‘‘Homeland’’ of the Torinosu-Type Limestone in Relationto Jurassic Accretionary Tectonics in SW Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521Keisuke Ishida, Takeshi Kozai and Francis Hirsch

Constraints on the Age of Metasediments from the WesternPart (Ortaköy, Aksaray) of the Central AnatolianCrystalline Complex, Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527Kerim Koçak

Tectono–Stratigraphic Position of the Kaminnyi Potik Unitin the Ukrainian Carpathians and Volcanogenic Rocksof Mt Chyvchyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533Michał Krobicki, Oleh Hnylko, Anna Feldman-Olszewskaand Jolanta Iwanczuk

The Devonian Stratigraphic Succession and Evolutionof the Baltic Sedimentary Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539Ervıns Lukševics, Girts Stinkulis, Tomas Saks, Konrads Popovsand Janis Jatnieks

Where Do the Boundaries Lie? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543Alain Morard, Stefan Strasky, Reto Burkhalter and Andreas Möri

Cretaceous Stratigraphy of Outcrop Sediments of the AriyalurArea, Cauvery Basin, Southern India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547R. Nagendra, P. Sathiyamoorthy and A. N. Reddy

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Stratigraphy of the Post-Rift Sequences of the Jatobá Basin,Northeastern Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553Virgínio Henrique Neumann and Dunaldson E. G. A. Rocha

Cenomanian–Turonian (Early Late Cretaceous) Facies Developmentand Sequence Stratigraphy of the Danubian CretaceousGroup (Bavaria, Southern Germany) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559Birgit Niebuhr, Nadine Richardt and Markus Wilmsen

Stratigraphic Transect of Northwestern Colombia:a Key to Understanding the Origin of the Panamanian Isthmus . . . . 563Andrés Pardo, José Abel Flores, Sergio Restrepo, Jairo Alonso Osorio,Diana Ochoa, Juan Carlos Silva, Carlos Borrero, Agustín Cardona,Ángel Barbosa, Alejandra Mejía, Ángelo Plata, Felipe Vallejo,Raúl Trejos, Francisco J. Sierro, María A. Bárcena and Camilo Montes

Unique Features of Interglacial Deposits (MIS 11, Eastern Poland):Comparison of Palaeobotanical and Geological Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 569Irena A. Pidek, Tomasz Zielinski, Sławomir Terpilowski, Piotr Czubla,Anna Hrynowiecka, Jarosław Kusiak, Anna Godlewska,Paweł Zielinski and Marzena Malek

Sequence Stratigraphy of the Lower Upper CretaceousElbtal Group (Cenomanian–Turonian of Saxony, Germany) . . . . . . . 573Nadine Richardt and Markus Wilmsen

Infrazonal Subdivision of the Volgian Stage in its TypeArea Using Ammonites and Correlation of the Volgianand Tithonian Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577Mikhail Rogov

Palynomorphs from the Pliensbachian–Toarcian Transitionin the Benzerka Section (Traras Mountains, Northwestern Algeria):Preliminary Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581Louisa Samar, Abbas Marok, Choukri Soulimane and Fatiha Hadji

Lower Cretaceous Stratigraphy of Eastern Asia: Nonmarineand Marine Correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587Jingeng Sha, Xin Rao, Yanhong Pan, Yaqiong Wang and Huawei Cai

Stratigraphic Characteristics of the DerinkuyuArea, Nevsehir, Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591Ali Riza Sogut, Kerim Kocak and Ahmet Güzel

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Stratigraphy and Microfacies of Cretaceous Limestonesin the Bornova Flysch Zone (Spil Mountain, Manisa,Western Turkey) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597Cemile Solak, Kemal Taslı and Sacit Özer

Harmonising the Swiss Lithostratigraphic Nomenclature . . . . . . . . . 603Stefan Strasky, Alain Morard, Reto Burkhalter and Andreas Möri

Lower and Middle Jurassic Stratigraphic Scheme of the WesternCaucasus: Problems of Correlation and Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609V. Ja. Vuks

Base and New Definition of the Lower Badenian and the Ageof the Badenian Stratotype (Middle Miocene, Central Paratethys). . . 615Michael Wagreich, Johann Hohenegger and Stjepan Coric

Integrated Stratigraphy (Bio- and Sequence Stratigraphy)and Facies Analysis of the Upper Cenomanian–Turonian(Lower Upper Cretaceous) in the Eastern Desert, Egypt . . . . . . . . . . 619Markus Wilmsen and Emad Nagm

Integrated Stratigraphy and Facies Analysis of the UpperAlbian–Turonian (Cretaceous) Debarsu Formation(Yazd Block, Central Iran) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623Markus Wilmsen, Marisa Storm, Franz Theodor Fürsichand Mahmoud Reza Majidifard

Review of the Jurassic System of Russia: Stages, Boundaries,and Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629Victor Zakharov and Mikhail Rogov

Palaeogene–Neogene Stratigraphic Sequences of the TibetanPlateau and Their Response to Plateau Uplift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635Kexin Zhang, Guocan Wang, Mansheng Luo, Yadong Xu,Bowen Song and Junliang Ji

Part XII Theme B: Regional Stratigraphy—Stratigraphyof Iberian and Mediterranean Basins

Northern Tunisian Lower Cretaceous Stratigraphic ApproachUsing Ammonites and Microfaunas: A Model for the TethysSouthern Margin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643Nébiha Ben Haj Ali and Lucia Memmi

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Clays and Vegetation: Comparing Palaeoclimatic Signaturesin the Portuguese Lower Cretaceous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649Jorge Dinis, Mário Mendes, Pedro Dinis, João Pais,Jacques Rey and Ulrich Heimhofer

The Stratigraphy and Rifting Evolution of the Oxfordian–Barremian (Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous) in the Serraníade Cuenca (Southwestern Iberian Ranges, Spain) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655Marian Fregenal-Martínez, Javier Elez, M. Belén Muñoz-Garcíaand Raúl de la Horra

Correlation of the Middle Jurassic (Callovian) FormationsAcross the Dead Sea Rift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659Francis Hirsch, Howard R. Feldman, Fayez Ahmad,Mena Schemm-Gregory and Mark A. Wilson

Palaeogeographical Evolution of the Lusitanian Basin (Portugal)During the Jurassic. Part I: The Tectonic Constraintsand Sedimentary Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665José Carlos Kullberg, Rogério Bordalo da Rocha,António Ferreira Soares, Luís Vitor Duarte and Júlio Fonseca Marques

Palaeogeographical Evolution of the Lusitanian Basin (Portugal)During the Jurassic. Part II: The Slow-to-Fast Transformationsof Sedimentary Infilling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673José Carlos Kullberg, Rogério Bordalo da Rocha,António Ferreira Soares, Luís Vitor Duarte and Júlio Fonseca Marques

Palaeoenvironmental Changes and C-Isotope Stratigraphyin the Alarcón Formation Stratotype(Upper Cenomanian–Lower Coniacian), Iberian Ranges, Spain . . . . . 681A. Muñoz-Moreno, M. Domínguez-Morales, I. Rosales,L. M. Robredo and J. Martín-Chivelet

Stratigraphic Features of the Yes�ilyurt–KonakArea (Malatya, Turkey). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687Ali Müjdat Özkan

A Description of Terrestrial Neogene Depositsin the Beyköyü-Gökçeyazi Area (Eregli, Konya, Central Turkey) . . . 693Ali Müjdat Özkan and Fuat ÇömlekcÎler

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The Lower and Middle Jurassic of the Western MediterraneanTethys (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699Driss Sadki, Abbas Marok and Mohamed Soussi

Part XIII Theme B: Regional Stratigraphy—Rodiniaand Gondwana Stratigraphy and Geochronology

Sedimentary Provenance of Neogene Strata From the SouthwesternPortuguese Coast (Sines Cape): Detrital ZirconU–Pb Geochronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707Luís Albardeiro, M. F. Pereira, Cristina Gama,Martim Chichorro, Mandy Hofmann and Ulf Linnemann

Provenance Analysis of the Late Ediacaran Basinsfrom Southwestern Iberia (Série Negra Successionand Beiras Group): Evidence for a CommonNeoproterozoic Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711M. Chichorro, A. R. Solá, M. F. Pereira, M. Hofmann,U. Linnemann, A. Gerdes, J. Medina, L. Lopes and J. B. Silva

Deciphering a Multipeak Event in a Noncomplex Setof Detrital Zircon U–Pb Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717A. Ferreira, C. Lopes, M. Chichorro, M. F. Pereira and A. R. Sola

The Cryogenian and Ediacaran Records From the AmazonPalaeocontinent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723Milene Freitas Figueiredo and Marly Babinski

The Cadomian Orogen: Neoproterozoic to Early CambrianCrustal Growth and Orogenic Zoning Along the NorthwesternPeriphery of the West African Craton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729Ulf Linnemann, Axel Gerdes, Mandy Hofmann and Linda Marko

Chroniberia: The Ongoing Development of a GeochronologicalGIS Database of Iberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733C. Lopes, A. Ferreira, M. Chichorro, M. F. Pereira,J. A. Almeida and A. R. Solá

Biostratigraphic Correlation of the Cambrian Succession BetweenShandong Province, North China and the TaebaeksanBasin, Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737Tae-Yoon Park, Jusun Woo, Ji-Hoon Kihm, Duck K. Choiand Sung Kwun Chough

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The Significance of Changes of Source Areas DuringCarboniferous Turbiditic Deposition (Southwestern Iberia). . . . . . . . 741M. F. Pereira, M. Chichorro, G. Gutierrez-Alonso, F. Vilallonga,K. Drost, C. Ribeiro, J. B. Silva, L. Albardeiro, M. Hofmannand U. Linnemann

Provenance Analysis of Lower Palaeozoic Siliciclastic Rocksof Southwestern Iberia (Ossa–Morena Zone): Distal ShelfDeposition on the North Gondwana Passive Margin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747M. F. Pereira, M. Chichorro, C. Lopes, A. M. R. Solá,J. B. Silva, M. Hofmann and U. Linnemann

Provenance of Cambrian–Ordovician Siliciclastic Rocksof Southwestern Iberia: Insights into the Evolutionof the North Gondwana Margin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753A. R. Solá, M. Chichorro, M. F. Pereira, M. Hofmann, U. Linnemann,A. Gerdes, J. Medina, L. Lopes and J. B. Silva

Provenance of Late Triassic Basins During the First Stagesof Rifting in Pangaea (SW Iberia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759F. Vilallonga, M. F. Pereira, C. Ribeiro, M. Chichorro, M. Hofmann,K. Drost and U. Linnemann

Stratigraphy of the Lower Palaeozoic Bowers Supergroup,Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: Preliminary ResultsFrom the 2012–2013 Korean Antarctic Geological Expedition . . . . . . 763Jusun Woo, Young-Hwan Kim, Tae-Yoon Park, Jong Ik Lee,In Sung Yoo, Sangbum Park and Moon Young Choe

Permo–Carboniferous Successions of the Tengchong Block,Western Yunnan, China: Status and Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767Xiaochi Jin, Hao Huang, Yukun Shi and Lipei Zhan

Part XIV Theme C: Applied Stratigraphy—Sequence Stratigraphy,Seismic Stratigraphy and Seismic Geomorphology

Megablocks and the Stratigraphic Record of Continental Margins:How Large an Event Do They Materialise? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775Tiago M. Alves

Seismic Geometry and Facies Analysis of a Quaternary TunnelGlacial Valley Infill in the Dutch North Sea: Preliminary Results . . . 781Antonio Benvenuti and Andrea Moscariello

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Facies and Stratigraphic Controls of the Palaeokarst Affectingthe Lower Jurassic Coimbra Group, Western Central Portugal . . . . 787Luca Antonio Dimuccio, Luís Vítor Duarte and Lúcio Cunha

Sequence-Stratigraphic Analysis of the Aptian Depositsin the Valley of the Mzymta River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793Ruslan Gabdullin, Aleksey Ivanov, Ekaterina Shcherbinina,Oleg Zerkal, Evgenii Samarin, Dmitry Nadezhkin,Aleksey Bershov and Sergei Naumov

Geometry and Classification of Submarine Canyon Confluences . . . . 797Davide Gamboa and Tiago Alves

Sequence Stratigraphy of Late Quaternary Depositsin the Southeastern Yellow Sea of Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803Dae Choul Kim, Sung Ho Bae, Gwang Soo Lee, Seong Pil Kim,Hi Il Yi and Kap Sik Jeong

Stratigraphy Using Wavelet Transform Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809Sunjay

Sequence Stratigraphy of the Cambrian and OrdovicianSeries in the Illizi Basin (Algeria) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815Khemissi Zellouf and Hamid Aït Salem

Mesozoic Platform Megasequences in the Eastern Partof the Russian Plate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821Svetlana O. Zorina

Part XV Theme C: Applied Stratigraphy—Chemostratigraphy,Magnetostratigraphy, Chronology, Palaeoenvironmentsand Correlations

The Elemental Stratigraphy of the South Caspian Lower PlioceneProductive Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827Akif Alizada, Elmira Aliyeva, Dadash Huseynov and Ibrahim Guliyev

Integrated Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironmental Reconstructionfor the Upper Cretaceous Danish Chalk Basedon the Stevns-2 Core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833Myriam Boussaha, Nicolas Thibault and Lars Stemmerik

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Isotopic Events Preceding the Badenian Salinity Crisisin the Central Paratethys, Middle Miocene, Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837Krzysztof Bukowski, Arjan de Leeuw and Małgorzata Gonera

Advances in the Stratigraphy and Geochemistryof the Organic-Rich Lower Jurassic Series of the LusitanianBasin (Portugal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841Luís V. Duarte, Ricardo L. Silva, João G. Mendonça Filho,Ana C. Azerêdo, Maria Cristina Cabral, María J. Comas-Rengifo,Gil Correia, Rui Ferreira, Isabel M. Loureiro, Ricardo Paredes,Alcides Pereira and Nadi Poças Ribeiro

Integrated Magnetic Susceptibility and Geochemical Recordof d13C Anomalies in the Berriasian and Valanginian Sectionsfrom the Tethyan Domain (Western Carpathians, Poland) . . . . . . . . 847Jacek Grabowski, Leszek Krzeminski, Johann Schnyder,Katarzyna Sobien, Jan Hejnar, Leona Koptiková,Andrzej Pszczółkowski and Petr Schnabl

The Upper Cenomanian–Lower Turonian Anoxic Eventin the Carbonate Platform of the Pre-African Trough, Morocco . . . . 853V. Lebedel, C. Lezin, B. Andreu, M.-J. Wallez, El M. Ettachfiniand L. Riquier

Geochemical Signatures of Recent Holocene Estuarine Sedimentsof the Jaboatão River, Pernambuco, Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857Marta M. do Rego Barros Fernandes de Lima,Virgínio Henrique Neumann, Maria Teresa Taboada Castro,Enjôlras de A. Medeiros Lima, Edmilson Santos de Limaand Ricardo Ferreira da Silva

Late Jurassic Bio- and Chemostratigraphy of the LowerSaxony Basin, Northern Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863Friedrich Wilhelm Luppold, Carmen Heunisch, Jochen Erbacher,Matthias Heldt and Sebastian Caesar

Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Signals from the Callovian–Oxfordianin French Sedimentary Basins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865Pierre Pellenard, Romain Tramoy, Marine Cornuault,Emmanuelle Pucéat, Anna-Chiara Bartolini, Emilia Huret,Mathieu Martinez, Dominique Fortwengler, Didier Marchandand Jacques Thierry

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The Holocene Climatic Recovery in South-Western Iberiaas Recorded in Limestone Tuff Deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869Carlos Ribeiro, Pedro Terrinha, Antje Voelker, António Candeias,Lúcia Rosado and Paulo Guerreiro

Preliminary Magnetostratigraphy for the Jurassic–CretaceousTransition in Porto da Calada, Portugal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873Johanna Salminen, Jorge Dinis and Octávio Mateus

The Stratigraphic Significance of Water Geochemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 879Irén Varsányi and Lajos Ó. Kovács

Geochemistry and Chemostratigraphy of Meso- to NeoproterozoicSedimentary Rocks of the Yenisei Ridge (Siberia, Russia) . . . . . . . . . 885Irina Vishnevskaya, Natalia Pisareva, Artem Proshenkinand Nadejda Kanygina

Part XVI Theme C: Applied Stratigraphy—Stratigraphy Appliedto Oil Industry

Factors Controlling Trace-Metal Distribution in Alluvialand Coastal Deposits: Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration . . . 891Alessandro Amorosi and Irene Sammartino

A Multi-Facetted Approach to Stratigraphy: One that is Applicableto the Oil and Gas Industry? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895Emma-Jane Davies, Kenneth Thomas Ratcliffe, Paul Montgomery,Luis Pomar, Brooks B. Ellwood and David S. Wray

Part XVII Theme C: Applied Stratigraphy—The QuaternarySystem and Its Formal Subdivision

On the Problems of Correlating the Pleistocene Glacial Depositsin the Russian Altai with Siberian Stratigraphic Scales. . . . . . . . . . . 903A. R. Agatova, R. K. Nepop and H. Rodnight

The Anthropocene: A Geomorphological and Sedimentary View . . . . 909Antony G. Brown

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The Valle di Manche Section (Calabria, Southern Italy):A Candidate Section for the GSSP of the Ionian Stage(Middle Pleistocene Subseries) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915Luca Capraro, Gian Battista Vai, Jan Backman, James E. T. Channell,Francesco Massari, Domenico Rio, Daniele Scarponi,Maria Sgavetti and Fabio Tateo

The ‘‘Anthropocene’’ and ‘‘the Present is the Key to the Past’’ . . . . . 919K. M. Cohen

The Transgressive Early–Middle Holocene Boundary:The Case for a GSSP at Rotterdam, Rhine Delta,North Sea Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925K. M. Cohen and M. P. Hijma

Clastic Cave Sediments and Speleogenesis of the BuracaEscura Archaeological Site (Western–Central Portugal) . . . . . . . . . . 931Luca Antonio Dimuccio, Jorge Dinis, Thierry Aubry and Lúcio Cunha

It’s Time to Revitalize the Tertiary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937Lucy E. Edwards, Randall C. Orndorff, Martin J. Headand Robert A. Fensome

Evaluating the Concept of a Global ‘‘Last GlacialMaximum’’ (LGM): A Terrestrial Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943Philip D. Hughes and Philip L. Gibbard

High-Resolution Magneto–Climatostratigraphy of MIS 19from the Osaka Group, Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947Masayuki Hyodo and Ikuko Kitaba

Peat Stratigraphy and Changes in Peat Formation Duringthe Holocene in Latvia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951Laimdota Kalnina, Eliza Kuske and Ilze Ozola

Stratigraphic Sequence of the Con Moong Cave, Thanh HoaProvince, and Its Implications for the Upper QuaternaryStratigraphy of Northern Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957Doan Dinh Lam and Nguyen Khac Su

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Climatic Stratigraphy of the Kazantsevo Horizon(as an Analogue of MIS-5) in the Boreal Zoneof Western Siberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965Stanislav Laukhin, Vladislav Kuznetsov, Fedor Maksimov,Galina Shilova and Aleksey Firsov

A Well-Preserved Beach Landform and Sedimentary Structureon the East Antarctic Coast Affected by GlacialIsostatic Rebound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969Hideki Miura, Jun’ichi Okuno and Hideaki Maemoku

The Search for a Stratotype Section for the Late Pleistocene:Progress from the Fronte Section (Taranto Area, Italy) . . . . . . . . . . 973Alessandra Negri, Alessandro Amorosi, Fabrizio Antonioli,Adele Bertini, Giuseppe Mastronuzzi, Stefano Marabini,Paolo Montagna, Veronica Rossi, Daniele Scarponi,Marco Taviani, Luigi Vigliotti and Gian Battista Vai

A Reassessment of the Matuyama–Brunhes Boundary Age Basedon the Post-depositional Remanent Magnetization (PDRM)Lock-In Effect for Marine Sediments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977Yusuke Suganuma

Do Old Mining Waste Deposits from Austria Definean ‘‘Old’’ Anthropocene? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981Michael Wagreich

Formal Subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983M. J. C. Walker, P. L. Gibbard, M. Berkelhammer, S. Bjorck,L. C. Cwynar, D. A. Fisher, A. J. Long, J. J. Lowe, R. M. Newnham,S. O. Rasmussen and H. Weiss

Evidence for a Stratigraphic Basis for the Anthropocene . . . . . . . . . 989Colin N. Waters, Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Simon J. Price,Jon R. Ford and Anthony H. Cooper

Stratigraphy of the Caspian Sea Neopleistocene, Basedon Didacna Eichwald Molluscs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 995Tamara Yanina

Potential Formalization of the Anthropocene: A Progress Report . . . 999Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters and Mark Williams

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Part XVIII Theme C: Applied Stratigraphy—FossilVertebrates in Stratigraphy

Stratigraphic Distribution of Large Flightless Birdsin the Palaeogene of Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005Eric Buffetaut and Delphine Angst

The Neogene Terrestrial Chronostratigraphic Sequence of China . . . 1009Tao Deng and Sukuan Hou

Triassic Timescale Based on Tetrapod Biostratigraphyand Biochronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013Spencer G. Lucas and Lawrence H. Tanner

A New Early Middle Pleistocene Locality of Small Mammals(Lower Dniester River) and its Position in the EarlyMiddle Pleistocene Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1017Anastasia K. Markova

Part XIX Theme C: Applied Stratigraphy—Fossil Invertebratesin Stratigraphy

Bivalves in Upper Devonian to Lower MississippianBiostratigraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1021Michael R. W. Amler

Fossil Bryozoans in the Stratigraphy of Mongolia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027Ariunchimeg Yarinpil

Nautiloids From the Toarcian of the Iberian Peninsula,Spain and Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1031Fernando Barroso-Barcenilla, María José Comas-Rengifo,Luís Vítor Duarte, Antonio Goy and Gemma Martínez

Morphological Evolution of Claraia Species from the LatePermian (Changhsingian) to the Early Triassic (Induan)and the Response to the Permian–Triassic Stressed Environment . . . 1035Weihong He, Kexin Zhang, Tinglu Yang and Shunbao Wu

Mississippian–Pennsylvanian Boundary Beds in the South Urals . . . . 1039Elena Kulagina, Svetlana Nikolaeva and Vladimir Pazukhin

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Stratigraphic and Palaeogeographical Distributionof the Ordovician Eocrinoid Ascocystites Barrande 1887(Echinodermata, Blastozoa) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045Yamouna Makhlouf, Bertrand Lefebvre, Elise Nardin,Ahmed Nedjari, Serge Régnault and Mohamed Ferhi

Dynamics of Upper Sinemurian Macrobenthic Groups(Bivalves and Brachiopods) Preserved in Organic-RichFacies of the Lusitanian Basin (Western Iberia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1049Ricardo Paredes, María J. Comas-Rengifo and Luís V. Duarte

Part XX Theme C: Applied Stratigraphy—Microfossilsin Stratigraphy

Improving the Palaeoecological Understanding of the Lisboa–SintraRegion Cenomanian Units: The S. João Das Lampas Section . . . . . . 1055M. Cristina Cabral, Ana C. Azerêdo and Elba A. Boavida

Miocene Dinoflagellate Cyst Assemblages: Preliminary CorrelationBetween the Lower Tagus and Algarve Basins (Portugal) . . . . . . . . . 1061Lígia Castro, Marisa Borges, Zélia Pereira,Paulo Fernandes and João Pais

Palynostratigraphic Data for the Buntsandstein and MuschelkalkFacies from the Iberian Ranges (Spain) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1067José B. Diez, Alfredo Arche, Jean Broutin, Sylvie Bourquin,Raul De la Horra, Javier Ferrer, Soledad García-Giland José López-Gómez

New Sedimentological and Palynological Data for the Permianand Triassic of the Paris Basin, France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073José B. Diez, Sylvie Bourquin, Laurent Beccaletto and Eric Lasseur

Frasnian Ostracods of the East European Platform, Russia:Biostratigraphic Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1077Irina Evdokimova

Advances in Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy Basedon Toarcian–Aalenian Sections in the LusitanianBasin (Portugal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1081Jorge Ferreira, Emanuela Mattioli, Bernard Pittet and Mário Cachão

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Cenozoic Marine Diatom Zonations: Peculiaritiesof the Construction and Application of Biostratigraphic Schemes . . . 1085Andrey Gladenkov

Definition of the Mississippian–Pennsylvanian Boundaryin the Lviv–Volyn Coal Basin (Western Ukraine), Basedon Palynological Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091Evgeniia Gonyk and Antonina Ivanina

Refining Urgonian Biostratigraphy: A Key Sectionat L’Estellon, Drôme, France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095Bruno Granier, Robert Busnardo, Bernard Clavel,Michel Moullade, Jean Charollais, Guy Tronchettiand Pierre Desjacques

Upper Pliensbachian–Middle Toarcian Foraminiferal Assemblagesin the Camino Section (Basque–Cantabrian Basin, Spain) . . . . . . . . . 1099Concha Herrero and Roselis W. Salazar Ramírez

Palaeoclimatic Implications of Permian Fusulinids and Carbonatesfrom the Baoshan Block, Southwestern China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105Hao Huang and Xiaochi Jin

New Palynological and Floral Information From the PotíFormation (Late Visean), Riacho do Roncador Creek,Parnaíba Basin, Northern Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109Roberto Iannuzzi and Mercedes di Pasquo

Planktonic Foraminiferal Biozonation of the Oligocenein the Northern Adriatic Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1115Morana Hernitz Kucenjak and Vlasta Premec Fucek

Refinement of the Biostratigraphy and Biochronologyof the Belverde Borehole (Setúbal Peninsula, Portugal)Using Calcareous Nannofossil Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119Paulo Legoinha and José-Abel Flores

Calcareous Microfossils as Tracers of MajorPalaeoceanographic Perturbations: The Case of the Onsetof the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Tertiary Piedmont Basin(Northwestern Italy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123Lozar Francesca, Violanti Donata, Bernardi Elisa,Dela Pierre Francesco and Natalicchio Marcello

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Lower Cretaceous Pollen–Spore and Mesofossil Associationsof the Bombarral Formation (Lusitanian Basin,Western Portugal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129Mário Miguel Mendes, Jorge Dinis and João Pais

The Turonian–Coniacian Boundary in Western GeorgiaBased on Planktonic Foraminifera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1135Khatuna Mikadze

Biostratigraphy as a Tool to Validate High-Resolution OSL,CRN, and Sequence-Stratigraphic Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139Alessandra Negri, Anna Sabbatini, Rossella Capozzi, Kellen Gunderson,Vincenzo Picotti, Alesio Ponza and Frank J. Pazzaglia

Thrombolites from the Neoproterozoic Bhander Group,Vindhyan Supergroup, Central India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143S. K. Pandey

Correlation of Upper Cretaceous Sequences of Eastern EuropeBased on Radiolarians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149V. S. Vishnevskaya

Upper Cretaceous Radiolarian and Foraminiferal ZonalSubdivisions of the Crimean–Caucasian Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1153V. S. Vishnevskaya and L. F. Kopaevich

Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous ForaminiferalFacies Associations from the Melekesskian Depression . . . . . . . . . . . 1159Elena Zaytseva

Palaeogene Radiolarian-Bearing Strata in Tibet: Implicationsfor Neo-Tethys Evolution and Indian–Eurasian Collision . . . . . . . . . 1163Kexin Zhang, Yinping Liang and Weihong He

Vertebrate Microfossils as Tools in Stratigraphy: A Studyof the Lower Devonian Andrée Land Group, Spitsbergen . . . . . . . . . 1167Zivil _e Zigait _e, Henning Blom, Alberto Pérez-Huerta and Daniel Goujet

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Part XXI Theme C: Applied Stratigraphy—TerrestrialMesozoic Stratigraphy

The Karstic Habitat of Spelaeogriphaceans from the Las HoyasFossil Site (Upper Barremian, Serranía de Cuenca, Spain) . . . . . . . . 1175Marian Fregenal-Martínez, M. Belén Muñoz-García,Angela D. Buscalioni, Javier Elez and Raúl de la Horra

Early Triassic Fluvial–Aeolian Interaction in the Catalan Ranges(Northeastern Spain) and Its Palaeogeographical Significancefor the Western Tethys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181Belén Galán-Abellán, Raúl De la Horra, José López-Gómez,José F. Barrenechea, Mariano Marzo, Alfredo Archeand Violeta Borruel

Albian–Palaeocene Flora of the North Pacific: Phytostratigraphyand Palaeofloristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1185Alexei B. Herman

Palaeoenvironmental Interpretation of Palaeosols and PalustrineCarbonates of the Earliest Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystemsin the Serranía de Cuenca, Iberian Ranges, Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1191Raúl de la Horra, M. Belén Muñoz-García, Marian Fregenal-Martínezand Javier Elez

Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Palynological Successionsin the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1197Jianguo Li

Triassic Macrostratigraphy of the Western United States . . . . . . . . . 1203David Lovelace

Dating of the Uppermost Part of the Cabullona Group in Esqueda(Sonora, Mexico) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1207Uxue Villanueva-Amadoz, Carlos M. Gónzalez-León, Luigi Solari,Laura Calvillo-Canadell and Sergio R. S. Cevallos-Ferriz

Part XXII Theme C: Applied Stratigraphy—Volcanic Stratigraphy

Volcano-Stratigraphy of La Garrotxa Monogenetic VolcanicField, Northeastern Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213Xavier Bolós, Llorenç Planagomà and Joan Martí

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Stratigraphic Methodology for the New Geological Mapof Etna Volcano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1217Stefano Branca, Mauro Coltelli and Gianluca Groppelli

What Does ‘‘Volcanoclastic’’ Mean in a Distal SedimentarySuccession? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223Andrea di Capua and Gianluca Groppelli

Mineral Phases as a Tool for Robust Correlationof Proximal–Distal Tephra in the Central Mediterranean Area . . . . . 1227Raffaele Giordano, Roberto Sulpizio and Alfredo Caggianelli

Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Holocene FlankEruptions in Tenerife (Canarias) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233Gianluca Groppelli, Maria José Blanco, Daniele Giordano,Joan Martì Molist, Stavros Meletlidis and Claudia Principe

Original Detection Methods for Tephra Layersand Cryptotephras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1237Gwénolé Jouannic, Anne-Véronique Walter-Simonnet, Gilles Bossuet,Anne-Lise Develle, Eric Delabrousse and Christophe Loup

A Sequence-Stratigraphic Study in a Complex VolcanicArea (Campania, Italy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243Alfonsa Milia and Maurizio M. Torrente

Regional Implications of New U–Pb Zircon Ages from RhyoliticIgnimbritic Deposits and Andesitic Flows of Permian–Carboniferous Basins in the Southern Pyrenees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1247M. F. Pereira, A. Castro, C. Fernández, M. Chichorro and J. Martí

Geological Setting, Volcanic Stratigraphy, and Flank Failureof the El Estribo Volcano, Pátzcuaro (Michoacán, Mexico) . . . . . . . . 1251A. Pola, J. L. Macías, S. Osorio-Ocampo, V. H. Garduño-Monroy,Cardona S. Melchor and J. Martínez-Martínez

Geology and Stratigraphy of the Cerro Prieto Volcanic Complex,Baja California Norte, México . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1257Laura García Sánchez, José Luis Macías, José Luis Arce,Víctor Hugo Garduño-Monroy, Ricardo Saucedo, Paul Layer,Víctor Santiago Rocha and Guillermo Cisneros

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Another Look at the Mechanisms of Formation of Ash Aggregatesin Pyroclastic Deposits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263Teresa Scolamacchia

Stratigraphy of the Coranzulí Caldera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1269R. Seggiaro, S. Guzmán, J. Martí, C. Montero and E. López

The Use of Stratigraphic Data for the Mitigation of Hazardsat Volcanoes: The Example of Somma–Vesuvius (Italy) . . . . . . . . . . 1275Roberto Sulpizio

The Large Explosive Activity of Mt. Etna as Recordedin Distal Tephrostratigraphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1281Roberto Sulpizio, Gianluca Groppelli, Donatella Insinga,Stefano Branca, Paola Del Carlo, Stella Tamburrinoand Giovanni Zanchetta

Part XXIII Theme C: Applied Stratigraphy—Stratigraphyin Palaeoceanography

Isotope Stratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of a Modern CarbonateSystem: The Northern Bahamas Slope Over the Late Quaternary. . . 1287Ludivine Chabaud, Emmanuelle Ducassou, Thierry Mulderand Jacques Giraudeau

High-Resolution Biostratigraphy of the Holocene in Coresfrom the Bahamian Slopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1293Emmanuelle Ducassou, Ludivine Chabaud, Sabine Schmidtand Thierry Mulder

Biostratigraphy of the Holocene and of the Main Cold Eventsof the Late Quaternary in the Gulf of Cadiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297Emmanuelle Ducassou, Rim Hassan, Vincent Hanquiez,Josette Duprat, Eliane Gonthier, Thierry Mulder and Samuel Toucanne

A Record of Upper Hauterivian Climatic Variabilityin a Lagoonal Environment in the Lusitanian Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1303C. Lézin, P. S. Caetano, P. Gonçalves, J. Rey, F. Rochaand R. B. Rocha

Upper Holocene Stratigraphy and Pollen Case Studyof Isfjorden, West Spitsbergen (Svalbard, Norway). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309Olga Rudenko

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Pollen-Based Stratigraphy of Is-Fiord Bottom Sediments,Western Spitsbergen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315Olga Rudenko

Pleistocene Sediment Sequence of the Southern Lomonosov Ridge,Arctic Ocean: Preliminary Stratigraphic SubdivisionBased on Iceberg-Rafted Debris and BenthicForaminiferal Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1321Ekaterina Taldenkova, Sergei Nikolaev, Pavel Rekantand Nataliya Chistyakova

Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1327

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