[meteorite-list] The terrestrial Permian-Triassic boundary event bed is a nonevent

[Paul]

New paper about the Permian-Triassic boundary is South Africa
has been published in the March 2009 issue of “Geology”. It 
argues that the so-called “event bed” that allegedly marks the 
Permian-Triassic boundary neither marks it nor can be used to 
interpreted paleoenvironmental changes that occurred during 
the Permian-Triassic extinction event. The paper is:

Gastaldo, R.A., J. Neveling2, C.K. Clark, and S.S. Newbury, 2009,
The terrestrial Permian-Triassic boundary event bed is a nonevent
Geology. vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 199-202, doi:10.1130/G25255A.1

The abstract for Gastaldo, et al. (2009) can be found at:

http://geology.gsapubs.org/cgi/content/abstract/37/3/199

and the PDF file for it can be obtained from either:

http://www.colby.edu/~ragastal/RAG_reprints/RAG2009a.pdf

or http://www.colby.edu/~ragastal/Publications.htm

“ GSA Data Repository Item 2009056, The terrestrial Permian-Triassic 
boundary event bed is a non-even” is downloadable from:

ftp://rock.geosociety.org/pub/reposit/2009/2009056.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.