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Table of Contents - Special Paper 448

The Permian Extinction and the Tethys: An Exercise in Global Geology

by A.M. Celâl Şengör and Saniye Atayman

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