Table of Contents

1. Carbon isotope stratigraphy - principles and applications Darren R. Gröcke 2. Interpreting Phanerozoic d13C patterns as periodic glacio-eustatic sequences Moujahed Al-Husseini and Wolfgang Ruebsam 3. Stable carbon isotopes in archaeological plant remains Juan Pedro Ferrio, Mònica Aguilera, Jordi Voltas and José Luis Araus 4. Review of the Upper Ediacaran-Lower Cambrian Detrital Series in Central and North Iberia: NE Africa as possible Source Area José M. Ugidos, Pedro Barba and María I. Valladares 5. Calibrating d13C and d18O chemostratigraphic correlations across Cambrian strata of SW Europe and Morocco, West Gondwana J. Javier Álvaro 6. Ordovician d13C chemostratigraphy: A global review of major excursions and their ties to graptolite and conodont biostratigraphy Stig M. Bergström, Mats E. Eriksson and Per Ahlberg 7. Ordovician carbon isotope stratigraphy of China: a synthesis Chao Li and Yuandong Zhang 8. Comparative carbon isotope chemostratigraphy of major Late Devonian biotic crises Agnieszka Pisarzowska and Grzegorz Racki 9. Carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Tournaisian (Lower Mississippian) successions of NE Europe Andrey V. Zhuravlev, Artem N. Plotitsyn, Denis A. Gruzdev and Irina V. Smoleva 10. The isotopic composition of pedogenic carbonate as a record of pCO2: Insights from the Late Paleozoic of tropical western Pangea Lawrence H. Tanner and Spencer G. Lucas 11. Globally enhanced Hg concentration and Hg and C isotopes in Permian–Triassic Boundary successions: possible linkage to volcanism Alcides Nóbrega Sial, Jiubin Chen, Cristoph Korte, Manoj Kuma Pandit, Jorge Spangenberg, Juan Carlos Silva-Tamayo, Luis Drude Lacerda, Valderez Pinto Ferreira, José Antônio Barbosa, Claudio Gaucher, Natan Silva Pereira and Paulo Ricardo Riedel 12. Early Toarcian glacio-eustatic unconformities and chemostratigraphic black holes Wolfgang Ruebsam, Nicolas Thibault and Moujahed Al-Husseini 13. Assessing shale gas reservoir potential using multi-scaled SEM pore network characterisations and quantifications: The Ciñera-Matallana pull-apart basin, NW Spain Ethan J. Richardson and Michael Montenari

About the Author

Dr. Michael Montenari works at the Earth Sciences and Geography Department, Keele University.