Permian palynostratigraphy: a global overview

Stephenson, Michael H.. 2018 Permian palynostratigraphy: a global overview. In: Lucas, S.G.; Shen, S.Z, (eds.) The Permian timescale. London,UK, Geological Society of London, 321-347. (Geological Society Special Publications, 450).

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Abstract/Summary

Permian palynostratigraphic schemes are used primarily to correlate coal- and hydrocarbon-bearing rocks within basins and between basins, sometimes at high levels of biostratigraphic resolution. Up to now, their main shortcoming has been the lack of correlation with schemes outside the basins, coalfields and hydrocarbon fields that they serve, and chiefly a lack of correlation with the international Permian scale. This is partly because of phytogeographical provinciality from the Guadalupian onwards, making correlation between regional palynostratigraphic schemes difficult. However, local high-resolution palynostratigraphic schemes for regions are now being linked either by assemblage-level quantitative taxonomic comparison or by the use of single well-characterized palynological taxa that occur across Permian phytogeographical provinces. Such taxa include: Scutasporites spp., Vittatina spp., Weylandites spp., Lueckisporites virkkiae, Otynisporites eotriassicus and Converrucosisporites confluens. These palynological correlations are being facilitated and supplemented with radiometric, magnetostratigraphic, independent faunal and strontium isotopic dating.

Item Type:	Publication - Book Section
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1144/SP450.2
ISSN:	0305-8719
Date made live:	07 Feb 2017 15:07 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/516139

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