Chemostratigraphy Across Major Chronological Boundaries

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Chemostratigraphy Across Major
Chronological Boundaries
Alcides N. Sial
Claudio Gaucher
Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar
Valderez Pinto Ferreira
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CONTENTS
Contributors .........................................................................................................................................................vii
Preface ..................................................................................................................................................................xi
Acknowledgments ...............................................................................................................................................xiii
Part I: Introduction
1. Chemostratigraphy as a Formal Stratigraphic Method
Alcides Nobrega Sial, Claudio Gaucher, Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar, and Valderez Pinto Ferreira ..............3
2. Glossary of Chemostratigraphy
Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar, Alcides Nobrega Sial, Claudio Gaucher, and Valderez Pinto Ferreira ............27
Part II: Precambrian
3. The Archean‐Proterozoic Boundary and the Great Oxidation Event
Claudio Gaucher and Robert Frei .................................................................................................................35
4. Chronochemostratigraphy of Platform Sequences Across the Paleoproterozoic‐Mesoproterozoic Transition
Farid Chemale Junior and Felipe Guadagnin.................................................................................................47
5. Chemostratigraphy of the Mesoproterozoic‐Neoproterozoic 
Transition
Juan Carlos Silva‐Tamayo, Nova Giovanny, and Karol Tatiana Dussan‐Tapias ................................................73
6. The Cryogenian‐Ediacaran Boundary in the Southern Amazon Craton
Afonso César Rodrigues Nogueira, Guilherme Raffaeli Romero, Evelyn Aparecida Mecenero Sanchez,
Fábio Henrique Garcia Domingos, José Bandeira, Iara Maria dos Santos, Roberto Vizeu Lima Pinheiro,
Joelson Lima Soares, Jean Michel Lafon, Jhon Willy Lopes Afonso, Hudson Pereira Santos, and Isaac
Daniel Rudnitzki ..........................................................................................................................................89
7. The Ediacaran‐Cambrian Transition: A Resource‐Based Hypothesis for the Rise and Fall
of the Ediacara Biota
Alan J. Kaufman .........................................................................................................................................115
Part III: Paleozoic
8. δ13C Chemostratigraphy of the Ordovician‐Silurian Boundary Interval
Stig M. Bergström and Daniel Goldman .....................................................................................................145
9. Chemostratigraphy Across the Permian‐Triassic Boundary: The Effect of Sampling Strategies
on Carbonate Carbon Isotope Stratigraphic Markers
Martin Schobben, Franziska Heuer, Melanie Tietje, Abbas Ghaderi, Dieter Korn,
Christoph Korte, and Paul B. Wignall ..........................................................................................................159
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Part IV: Mesozoic
10. Chemostratigraphy Across the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary
Christoph Korte, Micha Ruhl, József Pálfy, Clemens Vinzenz Ullmann, and Stephen Peter Hesselbo ............185
11. Jurassic‐Cretaceous Carbon Isotope Geochemistry–Proxy for Paleoceanography
and Tool for Stratigraphy
Helmut Weissert .........................................................................................................................................211
12. Chemostratigraphy Across the Cretaceous‐Paleogene (K‐Pg) Boundary: Testing the Impact
and Volcanism Hypotheses
Alcides Nobrega Sial, Jiubin Chen, Luis Drude Lacerda, Robert Frei, John A. Higgins,
Vinod Chandra Tewari, Claudio Gaucher, Valderez Pinto Ferreira, Simonetta Cirilli,
Christoph Korte, José Antonio Barbosa, Natan Silva Pereira, and Danielle Santiago Ramos .........................223
Part V: Cenozoic
13. Cenozoic Chemostratigraphy: Understanding the Most Recent Era of the Earth’s History
Priyadarsi Debajyoti Roy, Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar, and Ramasamy Nagarajan ..................................261
Index ..................................................................................................................................................................279
CONTRIBUTORS
Jhon Willy Lopes Afonso Valderez Pinto Ferreira
Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Geologia e NEG–LABISE
Geoquímica Department of Geology
Faculdade de Geologia Federal University of Pernambuco
Instituto de Geociências Recife, PE, Brazil
Universidade do Pará
Belém, PA, Brazil Robert Frei
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource
José Antonio Barbosa Management
LAGESE University of Copenhagen
Department of Geology Copenhagen, Denmark;
Federal University of Pernambuco Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (NordCEE)
Recife, PE, Brazil University of Southern Denmark
Odense, Denmark
Stig M. Bergström
School of Earth Sciences Claudio Gaucher
Division of Earth History Instituto de Ciencias Geológicas
The Ohio State University Facultad de Ciencias
Columbus, OH, USA Universidad de la República
Montevideo, Uruguay
Farid Chemale Junior
Programa de Pos‐graduação em Geologia
Abbas Ghaderi
Universidade Vale do Rio dos Sinos
Department of Geology
São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Faculty of Sciences
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Jiubin Chen
Mashhad, Iran
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry
Institute of Geochemistry
Nova Giovanny
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Corporación Geológica Ares
Guiyang, China
Bogotá, Colombia
Simonetta Cirilli
Daniel Goldman
Department of Physics and Geology
Department of Geology
University of Perugia
University of Dayton
Perugia, Italy
Dayton, OH, USA
Fábio Henrique Garcia Domingos
Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Geologia e Felipe Guadagnin
Geoquímica Universidade Federal do Pampa
Faculdade de Geologia Caçapava do Sul
Instituto de Geociências Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Universidade do Pará
Belém, PA, Brazil Stephen Peter Hesselbo
Camborne School of Mines and Environment and
Karol Tatiana Dussan‐Tapias Sustainability Institute
Universidad de Caldas University of Exeter
Manizales, Colombia Cornwall, United Kingdom
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Franziska Heuer József Pálfy
Museum für Naturkunde ‐ Leibniz Institute for Department of Geology
Evolution and Biodiversity Science Eötvös University
Berlin, Germany Budapest, Hungary;
Research Group for Paleontology
John A. Higgins Hungarian Academy of Sciences‐Hungarian Natural
Department of Geosciences History Museum-Eötvös University
Princeton University Budapest, Hungary
Princeton, NJ, USA
Natan Silva Pereira
Alan J. Kaufman
NEG–LABISE
Department of Geology
Department of Geology
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
Federal University of Pernambuco
University of Maryland
Recife, PE, Brazil;
College Park, MD, USA
Department of Biology
State University of Bahia
Dieter Korn
Paulo Afonso, Brazil
Museum für Naturkunde ‐ Leibniz Institute for
Evolution and Biodiversity Science
Berlin, Germany Roberto Vizeu Lima Pinheiro
Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Geologia e
Christoph Korte Geoquímica
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Faculdade de Geologia
Management Instituto de Geociências
University of Copenhagen Universidade do Pará
Copenhagen, Denmark Belém, PA, Brazil
Jean Michel Lafon
Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar
Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Geologia e
Department of Geology
Geoquímica
Periyar University
Faculdade de Geologia
Salem, TN, India
Instituto de Geociências
Universidade do Pará
Belém, PA, Brazil; Danielle Santiago Ramos
Research Productivity of CNPq Department of Geosciences
Brasília, Brazil Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
Luis Drude Lacerda
LABOMAR, Institute of Marine Sciences Guilherme Raffaeli Romero
Federal University of Ceará Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Geologia e
Fortaleza, Brazil Geoquímica
Faculdade de Geologia
Ramasamy Nagarajan
Instituto de Geociências
Department of Applied Geology
Universidade do Pará
Curtin University
Belém, PA, Brazil
Sarawak, Malaysia
Afonso César Rodrigues Nogueira Priyadarsi Debajyoti Roy
Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Geologia e Instituto de Geología
Geoquímica Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Faculdade de Geologia Ciudad de México, México
Instituto de Geociências
Universidade do Pará Isaac Daniel Rudnitzki
Belém, PA, Brazil; Departamento de Geologia
Research Productivity of CNPq Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Brasília, Brazil Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil
CONTRIBUTORS ix
Micha Ruhl José Bandeira
Department of Geology Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Geologia e
Trinity College Dublin Geoquímica
The University of Dublin Faculdade de Geologia
Dublin, Ireland; Instituto de Geociências
Department of Earth Sciences Universidade do Pará
University of Oxford Belém, PA, Brazil
Oxford, United Kingdom
Joelson Lima Soares
Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Geologia e
Evelyn Aparecida Mecenero Sanchez
Geoquímica
Faculty of Geological Engineering
Faculdade de Geologia
Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia
Instituto de Geociências
Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e
Universidade do Pará
Mucuri
Belém, PA, Brazil
Diamantina, MG, Brazil
Juan Carlos Silva‐Tamayo
Hudson Pereira Santos
Antonio Nariño University
Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Geologia e
Bogotá, Colombia;
Geoquímica
Tetslab Geoambiental
Faculdade de Geologia
Medellin, Colombia
Instituto de Geociências
Universidade do Pará Vinod Chandra Tewari
Belém, PA, Brazil Department of Geology
Sikkim University
Iara Maria dos Santos Gangtok, SK, India
Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Geologia e
Geoquímica Melanie Tietje
Faculdade de Geologia Museum für Naturkunde ‐ Leibniz Institute for
Instituto de Geociências Evolution and Biodiversity Science
Universidade do Pará Berlin, Germany
Belém, PA, Brazil
Clemens Vinzenz Ullmann
Camborne School of Mines and Environment and
Martin Schobben
Sustainability Institute
School of Earth and Environment
University of Exeter
University of Leeds
Cornwall, United Kingdom
Leeds, United Kingdom;
Museum für Naturkunde ‐ Leibniz Institute for
Helmut Weissert
Evolution and Biodiversity Science
Department of Earth Sciences
Berlin, Germany
ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Alcides Nobrega Sial
NEG–LABISE Paul B. Wignall
Department of Geology School of Earth and Environment
Federal University of Pernambuco University of Leeds
Recife, PE, Brazil Leeds, United Kingdom