The Jurassic of the Circum-Pacific / Юрский период вокруг Тихого океана

In this work, 60 specialists come together to discuss the regional occurrences of Jurassic rocks around the paleo-Pacific. Their tectonic settings, stratigraphic sequences, and fossil assemblages are covered in detail; regional biozones based on palynomorphs, protistans, plants, and invertebrates are defined; and superregional standard zones based on ammonites are established. Numerous tables are used to document and illustrate intracontinental and intercontinental circum-Pacific correlations, and a large atlas illustrates more than 1,000 circum-Pacific index and guide fossils. Biogeographic distributions of different fossil groups are plotted on Jurassic plate-tectonic reconstructions of the paleo-Pacific; biorealms, -provinces and -subprovinces are distinguished for the different groups.
Not only is this the first comprehensive synthesis of Jurassic geology and paleontology of the Pacific area, but it appears to be the only one of its kind for any geological system. This book will prove indispensable to academic geologists, paleontologists, and stratigraphers interested in the Jurassic period. <...>