Stratigraphy & Timescales, Volume 6 Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy

About this book

Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy, volume six in the Stratigraphy & Timescales series covers research in stratigraphic disciplines, including the most recent developments in the geosciences. This fully commissioned review publication aims to foster and convey progress in stratigraphy with its inclusion of a variety of topics, including Carbon isotope stratigraphy - principles and applications, Interpreting Phanerozoic δ¹³C patterns as periodic glacio-eustatic sequences, Stable carbon isotopes in archaeological plant remains, Review of the Upper Ediacaran-Lower Cambrian Detrital Series in Central and North Iberia: NE Africa as possible Source Area, Calibrating δ¹³C and δ¹⁸O chemostratigraphic correlations across Cambrian strata of SW, and much more.

Contents

Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Preface

Chapter One: Miocene-Pleistocene calcareous nannofossils sequence stratigraphy and biochronology in the subsurface of the Nile Delta of Egypt
Chapter Two: A taxonomic revision of Heliolithaceae—Applications in resolving the problematic calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Paleocene
Chapter Three: An overview of the Paleocene-Eocene calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and bioevents in Egypt
Chapter Four: Upper Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the East European Platform: A proposed regional nannofossil zonation scheme and correlation with foraminifera and radiolarian zones
Chapter Five: Early–mid Cretaceous calcareous nannofossils from the central Tethys: biostratigraphy and ecology

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Biography

Dr Michael Montenari works at the Earth Sciences and Geography Department, Keele University.