The Carboniferous System
1968; Elsevier BV; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/b978-0-08-012277-9.50012-3
AutoresD. Andrew Brown, K. S. W. Campbell, Keith A.W. Crook,
Tópico(s)Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
ResumoThis chapter presents the stratigraphical details of the Carboniferous system in New Zealand and Australia. The Carboniferous rocks of eastern Australia were brought forcibly to the attention of the geological world in 1914 when T.W.E. David led the British Association excursion to observe the evidence of glaciation in the neighborhood of Seaham in the Hunter Valley. The definition of the Carboniferous system in Australia is a matter that has occasioned much difficulty and many disputes. In most areas, there is continuity of deposition from the Devonian into the Carboniferous with a lack of fossils in the region of the boundary, and the choice of the base of the system is, thus, often arbitrary. Its separation from the Permian is vexed not only by the lack of unanimity in the definition of the type Permian, but also by the lack of adequate paleontological criteria for the establishment of late Carboniferous correlations with Europe or America. The Carboniferous history of New Zealand remains to be elucidated, as no rocks that can be positively identified as belonging to this period have yet been discovered.
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