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Regional Stratigraphy of North America

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9781461290056

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9781461317951

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b402987

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Regional Stratigraphy of North America

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by William J. Frazier, David R. Schwimmer.

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Boston, MA :

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Springer US,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1987.

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1: Introduction -- 2: The Archean -- A. Introduction -- B. Major Archean Lithologies -- C. Hypotheses on Archean Tectonics -- 3: The Proterozoic -- A. Introduction -- B. North Atlantic Craton -- C. Circum-Superior Mobile Belt -- D. Churchill Province, III: Western Churchill -- E. Bear Province -- F. Grenville Orogen -- G. Proterozoic of the United States Craton -- H. Early History of the Cordilleran Continental Margin -- I. Early History of the Appalachian Continental Margin -- J. The Fossil Record of Early Life -- 4: The Sauk Sequence: Ediacarian-Lower Ordovician -- A. Conditions at the Beginning of the Phanerozoic -- B. Epeiric Seas and Cratonic Sequences -- C. A Digression, the Ediacarian: Do You Believe Rocks or Fossils? -- D. Phanerozoic Sauk Sedimentation -- E. Earliest Animals with Skeletons: First Recorded Taxonomic Radiation -- 5: The Tippecanoe Sequence: Middle Ordovician-Lower Devonian -- A. Introduction -- B. Tippecanoe Cratonic Sedimentation -- C. The Appalachian Continental Margin -- D. The Innuitian Continental Margin -- E. Continental Margin and Magmatic Arc Assemblages of the Cordillera -- F. Filling the Niches: Tippecanoe Life -- 6: The Kaskaskia Sequence: Middle Devonian-Upper Mississippian -- A. Introduction -- B. Kaskaskian Events on the Craton -- C. Kaskaskian of the Appalachian Mobile Belt -- D. Ouachita Mountains, Marathon Uplift, and Related Areas -- E. The Cordilleran Continental Margin -- F. The Innuitian Continental Margin -- G. Revolutions among Invertebrates and the 'Age of Fishes' -- 7: The Absaroka Sequence: Lower Pennsylvanian-Lower Jurassic -- A. Introduction -- B. Absarokan Cratonic Sedimentation -- C. The Allegheny Orogeny: Tectonic Culmination in the East -- D. Events on the Ouachita-Marathon Continental Margin -- E. Eastern Triassic-Jurassic Basins and the Gulf of Mexico: Onset of Continental Rifting -- F. The Absaroka Sequence in the Cordillera -- G. Upper Paleozoic and Lower Mesozoic Strata of the Innuitian Continental Margin -- H. Late Paleozoic and Triassic Marine Life: A Study in Diversification, Extinction, and Repopulation -- I. Early Amphibians and Reptiles -- 8: The Zuni Sequence: Middle Jurassic-Upper Cretaceous -- A. Introduction -- B. Zuni Cratonic Sedimentation -- C. Zuni Sequence of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Province -- D. Zuni Sequence in the Cordillera -- E. The Innuitian Continental Margin -- F. The Transition to Modern Invertebrates -- G. Mesozoic Terrestrial Plants -- H. The Rise and Fall of Archosauria and Other Zuni Vertebrates -- 9: The Tejas Sequence: Tertiary-Recent -- A. Introduction -- B. Tertiary Cratonic Sedimentation -- C. Tejas Sequence of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Province -- D. Tejas Sequence in the Cordillera -- E. The Innuitian Continental Margin -- F. The Quaternary -- G. Tertiary Invertebrates, Plants, and Paleoclimatology -- H. Cenozoic Mammals -- Appendix: Synoptic Taxonomy of Major Fossil Groups -- References.

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