Biostratigraphy
Description:... Nearly 100 geologists combine to produce approximately 60 articles in this volume. The essays fall under the general headings of "Carboniferous--General," "Devonian-Mississippian Boundary," "Mississippian--General," "Mississippian-Pennsylvanian--Boundary," "Pennsylvanian--General," "Pennsylvanian -Permian Boundary," and "Permian--General."
A sampling of the essays in this volume include "Miospore Zonation of the Carboniferous" by Bernard Owens; "Carboniferous Small Foraminifers and Stratigraphy" by B. L. Mamet; "Devonian-Lower Carboniferous Boundary in Japan" by M. Minato, M. Kato, S. Haga, and H. Takeda; "Mississippian Stratotype--An Overview" by Thomas L. Thompson; "Conodont Succession in the Mississippian of South Canada" by Sonny Baxter and Peter H. von Bitter; "The Mississippian Boundary in North America" by Patrick K. Sutherland and Walter L. Manger; and "Palynological Delineation of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Unconformity in West-Central Pennsylvania" by B. R. Wilson, A. Traverse, and I. G. Williams.
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