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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