List of contributors – pagina 7
Preface – pagina 11
OPENING SPEECHES
P. Corsini – Mayor of Brescia – pagina 12
M. Vanossi – Director of he Earth Science Department, Pavia University – pagina 13
1. EUROPE
Capitolo 1.
Peter A. ZIEGLER and Gerard M. STAMPFLI
Late Palaeozoic – Early Mesozoic plate boundary reorganization: collapse of the Variscan orogen and opening of Neotethys – pagina 17
1.1 ITALY
Capitolo 1.
Dario SCIUNNACH
Early Permian palaeofaults at the western boundary of the CoUio Basin (Valsassina, Lombardy) – pagina 37
Capitolo 2.
Umberto NICOSIA, Ausonio RONCHI and Giuseppe SANTI
Tetrapod footprints from the Lower Permian of western Orobic Basin (N. Italy) – pagina 45
Capitolo 3.
Franco FORCELLA, Dario SCIUNNACH and Gian Bartolomeo SILETTO
The Lower Permian in the orobic anticlines (Lombardy Southern Alps): criteria for field mapping towards a stratigraphic revision of the Collio Formation – pagina 51
Capitolo 4.
Franco FORCELLA and Gian Bartolomeo SILETTO
Structure and stratigraphy of the Permo-Carboniferous cover and Variscan metamorphic basement in the northern Serio Valley (Orobic Alps,Southern Alps, Italy): recognition of Permian faults – pagina 59
Capitolo 5.
Paolo SCHIROLLI
Geological setting of the Brescian Alps. with particular reference to the Permian outcrops: an overview – pagina 65
Capitolo 6.
Christoph BREITKREUZ, Giuseppe CASSINIS, Claudio CECCHIA, Luciano CORTESOGNO and Laura GAGGERO
Volcanism and associated sub-lacustrine crystal-rich mass-flow deposits in the Early Permian Collio Basin (Italian Alps) – pagina 73
Capitolo 7.
Umberto NICOSIA, Eva SACCHI and Marco SPEZZAMONTE
New palaeontological data for the Val Gardena Sandstone – pagina 83
Capitolo 8.
Marco AVANZINI, Paola CEOLONI, Maria Alessandra CONTI, Giuseppe LEONARDI, Riccardo MANNI, Nino MARIOTTI, Paolo MIETTO, Cristina MURARO, Umberto NICOSIA, Eva SACCHI, Giuseppe SANTI and Marco SPEZZAMONTE
Permian and Triassic tetrapod ichnofaunal units of Northern Italy: their potential contribution to continental biochronology – pagina 89
Capitolo 9.
Paola PITTAU
Correlation of the Upper Permian sporomorphcomplexes of the Southern Italian Alps with theTatarian complexes of the stratotype region – pagina 109
Capitolo 10.
Henk VISSCHER, Hans KERP, Jopie A. CLEMENT-WESTERHOF and Cindy V. LOOY
Permian floras of the Southern Alps – pagina 117
Capitolo 11.
Claudio BERETTA and Sergio RADRIZZANI
The Bellerophon-Werfen boundary in the western Dolomites (Italy). Petrographical studies and a new interpretation – pagina 125
Capitolo 12.
Luca BENCIOLINI, M. Eliana POLI, Dario VISONÀ and Adriano ZANFERRARI
The FunesNillnoss Basin: an example of Early Permian tectonics, magmatism and sedimentation in the eastern Southern Alps (NE Italy) – pagina 133
Capitolo 13.
Ausonio RONCHI
Upper Paleozoic and Triassic continental deposits of Sardinia: a stratigraphic synthesis – pagina 139
Capitolo 14.
Daniela FONTANA, Claudio NERI, Ausonio RONCHI and Cristina STEFANI
Stratigraphic architecture and composition of the Permian and Triassic siliciclastic succession of Nurra (northwestem Sardinia) – pagina 149
Capitolo 15.
Mario ALDINUCCI, Fabio SANDRELLI, Enrico PANDELI and Anna GANDIN
A Permian marine sedimentary record in the Farma Valley (Monticiano-Roccastrada ridge, southern Tuscany) – pagina 163
1.2 OTHER REGIONS
Capitolo 1.
Esther LASHERAS ADOT, Marceliano LAGO SAN JOSÉ, Carlos GALÉ BORNAO, Enrique ARRANZ YAGÜE and Andrés GIL IMAZ
The Upper Permian alkaline magmatism of the Cinco Villas massif (Spain): a record of the late-Variscan evolution of the western Pyrenees – pagina 171
Capitolo 2.
Marceliano LAGO SAN JOSÉ, Andrés GIL IMAZ, Andrés POCOVÌ JUAN, Enrique ARRANZ YAGÜE and Carlos GALÉ BORNAO
The Pennian calc-alkaline magmatism of the Iberian Belt (Spain): an updated synthesis – pagina 181
Capitolo 3.
Jean-Paul DEROIN (coordinator), Brenard BONIN, Jean BROUTIN, Bruno CABANIS, Jean-Jaquès CHÂTEAUNEUF, Renée DAMOTTE, Marc DURAND and Georges GAND
The Permian of Southern France: an overview – pagina 189
Capitolo 4.
Nicola CAPUZZO and François BUSSY
Synsedimentary volcanism in the LateCarboniferous Salvan-Dorenaz Basin (Western Alps)– pagina 203
Capitolo 5.
Andreas SCHÄFER
Stratigraphical constraints on molasse depositionalsystems in the Permo-Carboniferous Saar-Nahe Basin, Germany – pagina 213
Capitolo 6.
Sebastian VOIGT
Variation and preservation of lchniotherium in theTambach Sandstone (Rotliegend, Thuringia)– pagina 221
Capitolo 7.
Anna VOZÁROVÁ
Permian evolution of the western Carpathians,based on the analysis of sedimentary sequences – pagina 227
Capitolo 8.
Slavcho YANEV, Liubinka MASLAREVIC and Branslav KRISTIC
Outline of the Permian paleogeography in thecentral and eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula – pagina 235
Capitolo 9.
Liubinka MASLAREVIC and Branslav KRISTIC
Continental Perrnian and Lower Triassic red beds of the Serbian Carpatho-Balkanides – pagina 245
Capitolo 10.
Giuseppe CASSINIS and Slavcho YANEV
Upper Carboniferous and Pennian continentaldeposits of Bulgaria and Italy: a review – pagina 253
Capitolo 11.
Slavcho YANEV, Mihai POPA, Antoneta SEGHEDI and Gheorghe OAIE
Overview of the continental Perrnian deposits ofBulgaria and Romania– pagina 269
Capitolo 12.
Antoneta SEGHEDI, Mihai POPA, Gheorghe OAIE and Ionel NICOLAE
The Permian System in Romania – pagina 281
Capitolo 13.
Natalia K. ESAULOVA, Boris V. BUROV and Valentina I. GUBAREVA
Upper Permian type sections of the East European Platform and their correlation – pagina 295
Capitolo 14.
Vladlen R. LOZOVSKY, Valentin A. KRASSILOV, Sergey A. AFONIN, Boris V. BUROV and Olga P. YAROSHENKO
Transitional Perrnian-Triassic deposits in EuropeanRussia, and non-marine correlations – pagina 301
Capitolo 15.
Elena O. MALYSHEVA
The continental Permian of northeast Europe – pagina 311
2. NON-EUROPEAN TERRITORIES AND GLOBAL MATTERS
Capitolo 1.
Michael T. DUNN, Claude SPINOSA and Bruce R. WARDLAW
Invertebrate faunas and preliminary palynology, Carboniferous-Permian boundary stratotype, Aidaralash creek, Kazakhstan – pagina 319
Capitolo 2.
John UTTING
Permian and Early Triassic palynomorphassemblages from Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Alaska, Greenland, and Arctic Europe – pagina 327
Capitolo 3.
Zhuoting LIAO and Luijun LIU
Formation and evolution of the Permian strata of the eastern Tianshan mountain in Xinjiang, China – pagina 341
Capitolo 4.
Hartmut HAUBOLD and Spencer G. LUCAS
Early Permian tetrapod tracks – preservation, taxonomy, and Euramerican distribution – pagina 347
Capitolo 5.
Manfred MENNING
A Pennian Time Scale 2000 and correlation of marine and continental sequences using the Illawarra Reversal (265 Ma) – pagina 355
Capitolo 6.
Bruce R. WARDLAW and Tamara A. SCHIAPPA
Toward a refined Permian chronostratigraphy – pagina 363
Giuseppe CASSINIS
Meeting Report – pagina 367
Acknowledgements – pagina 375