Permian-Triassic Evolution of Tethys and Western Circum-Pacific

Abstract

List of contributors. Preface (Hongfu Yin et al.). Part 1. Permian-Triassic Strata and Palaeogeography. Paleoclimatic constraints for Early Permian paleogeography of Eastern Tethys (Jiaxin Yan, Hongfu Yin). The Permian of Russia and CIS and its interregional correlation (G.V. Kotlyar). The Permian of South Europe and its interregional correlation (G. Cassinis et al.). The Permian of China and its interregional correlation (Yugan Jin, Qinghua Shang). The Permian of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and its interregional correlation (Cu Tien Phan). The Permian of New Zealand and its interregional correlation (H.J. Campbell). Permian-Triassic successions in Japan: key to deciphering Permian/Triassic events (Y. Ezaki, A. Yao). Latest Permian and Triassic carbonates of Russia: new palaeontological findings, stable isotopes, Ca-Mg ratio and correlation (Y.D. Zakharov et al.). The Triassic of the Alps and Carpathians and its interregional correlation (A. Voros). The Triassic of China and its interregional correlation (Hongfu Yin, Yuanqiao Peng). The Triassic of Indochina peninsula and its interregional correlation (Vu Khuc). The Marine Triassic of Australasian and its interregional correlation (H.J. Campbell, J.A. Grant-Mackie). The northern margin of Gondwanaland: uppermost Carboniferous to lowermost Jurassic and its correlation (J.M. Dickins). Magnetic susceptibility and organic carbon isotopes of sediments across some marine and terrestrial Permo-Triassic boundaries (H.J. Hansen et al.). Part 2. Permian-Triassic Biotic Evolution. Evolution of the Permian and Triassic Foraminifera in South China (Jinnan Tong, G.R. Shi). Radiolarian evolution during the Permian and Triassic transition in South and Southwest China (Qinglai Feng et al.). Asian-western Pacific Permian Brachiopoda in space and time: biogeography and Extinction patterns (G.R. Shi, Shuzhong Shen).