Product Description: Permian and Triassic are the interval known for the integration and separation of Pangea, the closure of the Palaeotethys and the opening of Mesotethys. They were associated with a series of worldwide events including the Late Palaeozoic glaciation and succeeding extensive evaporatic and reef formations, the end-Palaeozoic regression, strong orogenies and widespread volcanism and magmatism, and finally, the Permo-Triassic biotic macro-extinction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Less is known in the West of the biology and geological history of China than of almost any other comparable area of the Earth's land surface. This book makes accessible to a wide readership a large volume of research that has hitherto only been available in Chinese...read more