The Late Triassic World Earth in a Time of Transition /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tanner, Lawrence H. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Topics in Geobiology, 46
• Subjects: Paleontology .; Historical geology.; Physical geography.; Paleontology.; Historical Geology.; Physical Geography.

This volume presents the latest science on all significant geological and paleontological aspects of the Earth during the Late Triassic Period. Rather than presenting a collection of narrowly focused research papers, the volume consists of a series of peer-reviewed chapters on specific aspects of th...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The Late Triassic Timescale
• Chapter 2. Late Triassic Global Plate Tectonics
• Chapter 3. Climates of the Late Triassic: Perspectives, Proxies and Problems
• Chapter 4. The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP): a Review
• Chapter 5. Distal Processes and Effects of Multiple Late Triassic Terrestrial Bolide Impacts: Insights from the Norian Manicouagan Event, Northeastern Quebec, Canada
• Chapter 6. New Upper Triassic conodont biozonation of the Tethyan Realm
• Chapter 7. Late Triassic Ammonoids: Distribution, Biostratigraphy and Biotic Events
• Chapter 8. Late Triassic Marine Reptiles
• Chapter 9. The Zorzino Limestone Actinopterygian Fauna from the Late Triassic (Norian) of the Southern Alps
• Chapter 10. Late Triassic terrestrial tetrapods: Biostratigraphy, biochronology and biotic events
• Chapter 11. The Late Triassic record of cynodonts: time of innovations in the mammalian lineage
• Chapter 12. Late Triassic Nonmarine Vertebrate and Invertebrate Trace Fossils and the Pattern of the Phanerozoic Record of Vertebrate Trace Fossils
• Chapter 13. Flora of The Late Triassic
• Chapter 14. Expansion of Arthropod Herbivory in Late Triassic South Africa: The Molteno Biota, Aasvoëlberg 411 Site and Developmental Biology of a Gall
• Chapter 15. The Missing Mass Extinction at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary.