Preface and Acknowledgments |
ix |
Abstract |
1 |
Chapter I: Introduction |
3 |
Chapter II: Tethys and the Tethyan Realm |
5 |
Chapter III: The Tethyan Terminology |
15 |
Chapter IV: The Tectonics of Pangea and the Paleo-Tethys During the Late Permian |
23 |
Chapter V: Anoxia and its Products |
33 |
Chapter VI: Some Permian Sections in and Around the Paleo-Tethys |
39 |
Rocks of the Paleo-Tethys |
39 |
Trench Fills and Abyssal (?) Deposits |
39 |
Continental Margin Deposits |
45 |
Rifts of the Future Neo-Tethys |
49 |
Paleo-Tethys–Panthalassa Transition Region |
50 |
Panthalassan Sections |
51 |
Areas Directly Polluted by the Paleo-Tethys |
51 |
Areas Indirectly Polluted by the Paleo-Tethys |
52 |
Areas That May or May Not Have Been Indirectly Polluted by the Paleo-Tethys |
55 |
Areas Not at All Polluted by the Paleo-Tethys |
55 |
Chapter VII: History of Global Redox Conditions in the Late Permian |
57 |
Chapter VIII: Paleo-Tethyan Anoxia and the “End-Permian” Extinction |
59 |
The Problem of Extinctions |
59 |
The “End-Permian” Extinction |
60 |
Who Died? |
61 |
What Were the Characteristics of Those Who Survived? |
63 |
The Mechanism of Killing |
64 |
Chapter IX: Conclusions |
67 |
Chapter X: References Cited |
71 |
Index |
87 |