Provides innovative and traditional techniques in stratigraphy

These techniques contribute to geological and paleobiological researches, for example:

charting the course and complexities of the evolution of life through time

understanding how ancient ecosystems developed and operated

furnishing data pivotal to strategic mineral exploration

Evolution of a Concept.- Stratigraphy: Evolution of a Concept.- The Search for Patterns: Ordering the Framework.- Buried Time: Chronostratigraphy as a Research Tool.- Ecostratigraphy's Basis, using Silurian and Devonian Examples, with Consideration of the Biogeographic Complication.- Devonian Palynostratigraphy in Western Gondwana.- Carboniferous and Permian Palynostratigraphy.- Biostratigraphy of the Non-Marine Triassic: Is a Global Correlation Based on Tetrapod Faunas Possible?.- The K-T Boundary.- The Search for Clues: Analyzing and Sequencing the Record.- Chemostratigraphy.- Paleobotany and Paleoclimatology.- Palynofacies Analysis and its Stratigraphic Application.- Sequence Biostratigraphy with Examples from the Plio-Pleistocene and Quaternary.- Taphonomy - Overview of Main Concepts and Applications to Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis.- Significance of Ichnofossils to Applied Stratigraphy.- Cyclostratigraphy.- The Role and Value of "Biosteering" in Hydrocarbon Reservoir Exploitation.- Modelling the Record.- Quantitative Methods for Applied Microfossil Biostratigraphy.