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Table of Contents - Special Paper 466

The Ordovician Earth System

Edited by Stanley C. Finney and William B.N. Berry

Preface Stanley C. Finney and William B.N. Berry		v
1.	Global setting of Ordovician orogenesis Cees R. van Staal and Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.	1
2.	Ordovician explosive volcanism Warren D. Huff, Stig M. Bergström, and Dennis R. Kolata	13
3.	Toward identifying potential causes for stratigraphic change in subtropical to tropical Laurentia during the Mohawkian (early Late Ordovician) Achim D. Herrmann and Bernd J. Haupt	29
4.	The Upper Ordovician Guttenberg δ¹³C excursion (GICE) in North America and Baltoscandia: Occurrence, chronostratigraphic significance, and paleoenvironmental relationships Stig M. Bergström, Birger Schmitz, Matthew R. Saltzman, and Warren D. Huff	37
5.	The Ordovician brachiopod radiation: Roles of alpha, beta, and gamma diversity David A.T. Harper	69
6.	Ordovician paleogeography and tectonics of the major paleoplates of China Chen Xu, Zhou Zhi-yi, and Fan Jun-xuan	85
7.	Ordovician of the Siberian Platform Alexander V. Kanygin, Tatiana N. Koren, Anastasia G. Yadrenkina, Alexander V. Timokhin, Oleg V. Sychev, and Tatiana Yu. Tolmacheva	105
8.	Early–Middle Ordovician conodont paleobiogeography with special regard to the geographic origin of the Argentine Precordillera: A multivariate data analysis Guillermo L. Albanesi and Stig M. Bergström	119
9.	Black shales: An Ordovician perspective William B.N. Berry	141
10.	Paleogeographic, paleoceanographic, and tectonic controls on early Late Ordovician graptolite diversity patterns Daniel Goldman and Wu Shuang-Ye	149
11.	Origin of Late Ordovician (mid-Mohawkian) temperate-water conditions on southeastern Laurentia: Glacial or tectonic? Frank R. Ettensohn	163
12.	Correlations across a facies mosaic within the Lexington Limestone of central Kentucky, USA, using whole-rock stable isotope compositions John W. Coates, Frank R. Ettensohn, and Harold D. Rowe	177