Applied stratigraphy / edited by Eduardo A.M. Koutsoukos.

Applied Stratigraphy

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-461) and index.

Aims & scope Topics in geobiology book series -- Contributors -- Foreword. The age of applied stratigraphy -- Acknowledgements -- Part I.Evolution of a concept. Stratigraphy : evolution of a concept / Eduardo A.M. Koutsoukos -- Part II. The search for patterns: ordering the framework. Buried time : chronostratigraphy as a research tool / Marie-Pierre Aubry and John A. Van Couvering ; Ecostratigraphy's basis, using Silurian and Devonian examples, with consideration of the biogeographic complication / Arthur J. Boucot ; Devonian palynostratigraphy in western Gondwana / Stanislas Loboziak, Jos�e Henrique G. Melo and Maurice Streel ; Carboniferous and Permian palynostratigraphy / Geoffrey Playford and Rodolfo Dino ; Biostratigraphy of the non-marine Triassic : is a global correlation based on tetrapod faunas possible? / Cesar L. Schultz ; The K-T boundary / Eduardo A.M. Koutsoukos -- Part III. The search for clues: analyzing and sequencing the record. Chemostratigraphy / Ren�e Rodrigues ; Paleobotany and paleoclimatology. Part 1. Growth rings in fossil woods and paleoclimates / Laureen Sally da Rosa Alves and Margot Guerra-Sommer ; Part 2. Leaf assemblages (taphonomy, paleoclimatology and paleogeography) / T�ania Lindner Dutra ; Palynofacies analysis and its stratigraphic application / David J. Batten and Darrin T. Stead ; Sequence biostratigraphy with examples from the Plio-Pleistocene and Quaternary / Hillary Clement Olson and Peter R. Thompson ; Taphonomy -- overview of main concepts and applications to sequence stratigraphic analysis / Michael Holz and Marcello G. Sim�oes ; Significance of ichnofossils to applied stratigraphy / S. George Pemberton and James A. MacEachern ; Cyclostratigraphy / Martin A. Perlmutter and Nilo C. de Azambuja Filho ; The role and value of "biosteering" in hydrocarbon reservoir exploitation / Robert W. Jones [and others] -- Part IV. Modelling the record. Quantitative methods for applied microfossil biostratigraphy / Felix M. Gradstein -- References -- Appendix. Color version of figures -- Index.

"This book aims to incorporate major aspects and essential elements underpining the modern applications and perspectives of Stratigraphy. It focuses on traditional and innovative techniques and how these can be utilized in the reconstruction of the geological history of sedimentary basins and in solving manifold geological problems and phenomena...This book is intended as a graduate-level textbook and reference text, primarily to meet complementary requirements and also serve as the major reference in general and applied courses on stratigraphy, paleontology, paleoecology, basin analysis, and sedimentary and petroleum geology."--Jacket.