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Status of Ordovician and Silurian Radiolarian Studies in North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

P. J. Noble  and
J. C. Aitchison
P. J. Noble
Affiliation:
Geology Department, California State University, Sacramento, 95819-6043
J. C. Aitchison
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
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Polycystine radiolaria that produce siliceous tests are known to range from Cambrian to Holocene. They have proven to be enormously useful in providing age control for siliceous marine sequences of Middle Devonian and younger ages, particularly for cherts and shales that are commonly devoid of other biostratigraphically useful fossils. The utility of radiolarian biostratigraphy became widely recognized in the 1970s and 1980s when it was applied in dating deformed marine siliceous sequences in orogenic belts around the world, most notably in Cordilleran North America and other areas along the Pacific rim (e.g., Jones and Murchey, 1986; Aitchison and Murchey, 1992; Ichikawa et al., 1990).

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Short Courses in Paleontology , Volume 8: Siliceous Microfossils , 1995 , pp. 19 - 30
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Copyright © 1995 Paleontological Society 

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