Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-461) and index.

Stratigraphy : evolution of a concept / Eduardo A.M. Koutsoukos -- Buried time : chronostratigraphy as a research tool / Marie-Pierre Aubry and John A. Van Couvering -- Ecostratigraphy's basis, using Silurian and Devonian examples, with consideration of the biogeographic complication / Arthur J. Boucot -- Devonian palynostratigraphy in western Gondwana / Stanislas Loboziak, José Henrique G. Melo and Maurice Streel -- Carboniferous and Permian palynostratigraphy / Geoffrey Playford and Rodolfo Dino -- Biostratigraphy of the non-marine Triassic : is a global correlation based on tetrapod faunas possible? / Cesar L. Schultz -- The K-T boundary / Eduardo A.M. Koutsoukos -- Chemostratigraphy / René Rodrigues -- Paleobotany and paleoclimatology. Part 1, Growth rings in fossil woods and paleoclimates / Laureen Sally da Rosa Alves and Margot Guerra-Sommer. Part 2, Leaf assemblages (taphonomy, paleoclimatology and paleogeography) / Tânia Lindner Dutra -- Palynofacies analysis and its stratigraphic application / David J. Batten and Darrin T. Stead -- Sequence biostratigraphy with examples from the Plio-Pleistocene and Quaternary / Hillary Clement Olson and Peter R. Thompson -- Taphonomy - overview of main concepts and applications to sequence stratigraphic analysis / Michael Holz and Marcello G. Simões -- Significance of ichnofossils to applied stratigraphy / S. George Pemberton and James A. MacEachern -- Cyclostratigraphy / Martin A. Perlmutter and Nilo C. de Azambuja Filho -- The role and value of "biosteering" in hydrocarbon reservoir exploitation / Robert W. Jones ... [et al.] -- Quantitative methods for applied microfossil biostratigraphy / Felix M. Gradstein.