A volume in Developments in Precambrian Geology with the focus on the Precambrian - Paleozoic boundary.
SECTION I: INTRODUCTION
PART 1 Introduction
1. The Neoproterozoic and Cambrian: a Time of Upheavals, Extremes,
and Innovations (C. Gaucher, A.N. Sial, G.P. Halverson, and H.E.
Frimmel)
SECTION II: NEOPROTEROZOIC-CAMBRIAN EVENTS IN SW GONDWANA
PART 2 Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Evolution of the Amazonian
Palaeocontinent
2. The Amazonian Palaeocontinent (C. J.S. de Alvarenga, P.C.
Boggiani, M. Babinski, M.A.Dardenne, M. Figueiredo, R.V.Santos, and
E.L. Dantas)
PART 3 Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Evolution of the Sao Francisco
Palaeocontinent
3. The São Francisco Palaeocontinent (A.N. Sial, M.A. Dardenne, A.
Misi, A.J. Pedreira, C. Gaucher, V.P. Ferreira, M.A. Silva Filho,
A. Uhlein, A.C. Pedrosa-Soares, R.V. Santos, M. Egydio-Silva, M.
Babinski, C.J.S. Alvarenga, T.R. Fairchild, and M.M. Pimentel)
PART 4 Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Evolution of the Rio de la
Plata Palaeocontinent
4.1. Extension and General Evolution of the Río de la Plata Craton
(J. Bossi,and C. Cingolani). 4.2. Lithostratigraphy (D.G. Poire,
and C. Gaucher). 4.3. Biostratigraphy (C. Gaucher,and D.G. Poire).
4.4. Chemostratigraphy (C. Gaucher, A.N. Sial, D.G. Poire L. Gomez
Peral, V.P. Ferreira, and M.M. Pimentel). 4.5. Palaeoclimatic
Events (C. Gaucher, and D.G. Poire). 4.6. Palaeogeography (C.
Gaucher, J. Bossi, and G. Blanco)
PART 5 Neoproterozoic to Early Palaeozoic Evolution of Southwestern
Africa
5.1. Configuration of Pan-African Orogenic Belts in Southwestern
Africa (H.E. Frimmel). 5.2. Continental Rifting (H.E. Frimmel).
5.3. Passive Continental Margin Evolution (R.McG. Miller, H.E.
Frimmel, and G.P. Halverson). 5.4. Syn- to Late-Orogenic
Sedimentary Basins of Southwestern Africa (G.J.B. Germs, R.McG.
Miller, H.E. Frimmel, and C. Gaucher). 5.5. Orogenic
Tectono-Thermal Evolution (T.M. Will, R.McG. Miller, and H.E.
Frimmel). 5.6. Syn- to Post-Orogenic Magmatism (R.McG. Miller,and
H.E. Frimmel). 5.7. Mineral Deposits (H.E. Frimmel,and R.McG.
Miller). 5.8. Geodynamic Synthesis of the Damara Orogen sensu lato
(R.McG. Miller, H.E. Frimmel,and T.M. Will)
PART 6 Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Evolution of the Pampean
Orogen
6. The Pampean Orogen: Ediacaran-Lower Cambrian Evolutionary
History of Central and Northwest Region of Argentina (F.G.
Aceñolaza, and A. Toselli)
PART 7 Microcontimnents and Suspect Terranes
7.1. The Paranapanema Lithospheric Block: Its Nature and Role in
the Accretion of Gondwana (M.S.M. Mantovani, and B.B. Brito Neves).
7.2. The Evolution and Tectonic Setting of the Luis Alves
Microplate of Southeastern Brazil: an Exotic Terrane during the
Assembly of Western Gondwana (M.A.S. Basei, A. Nutman, O. Siga
Junior, C.R. Passarelli, and C.O. Drukas)
SECTION III: SYNTHESIS AND GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS
PART 8 Palaeogeographic Evolution from Rodinia to Gondwana
8. Tectonic Events and Palaeogeographic Evolution of Southwestern
Gondwana in the Neoproterozoic and Cambrian (C. Gaucher, H.E.
Frimmel, and G.J.B. Germs)
PART 9 Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Biota
9.1. Neoproterozoic Acritarch Evolution (C. Gaucher, and P.
Sprechmann). 9.2. Skeletonised Metazoans and Protists (C. Gaucher,
and G.J.B.Germs). 9.3. Trace Fossils and the Agronomic Revolution
at the Neoproterozoic–Cambrian Transition in Southwest Gondwana
(G.F. Acenolaza, G.J.B.Germs, and F.G. Acenolaza)
PART 10 Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Biochemical Evolution
10. Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Biogeochemical Evolution (G.P.
Halverson, M.T. Hurtgen, S.M. Porter, and A.S. Collins)
PART 11 Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Palaeoclimatic Events
11.1. Neoproterozoic to Cambrian Palaeoclimatic Events in
Southwestern Gondwana (A.J. Kaufman, A.N. Sial, H.E. Frimmel, and
A. Misi). 11.2. Neoproterozoic Glacial Events in Eurasia (N.M
Chumakov)
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