Preface - New insights into the stratigraphic setting of Paleozoic to Miocene deposits: case studies from the Persian Gulf, Peninsular Malaysia and south-eastern Pyrenees

This book contains four chapters dealing with the investigation of facies analysis and palaeo-ecology, chemostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy referring to the palaeoecological and facies analysis techniques and methodologies, pertaining, in particular, an Oligo-Miocene carbonate succession of the Persian Gulf (Asmari Formation), the chemostratigraphy of Paleozoic carbonates of Peninsular Malaysia through the integration of stratigraphic, sedimentologic and geochemical data and the chronostratigraphy of a small ice-dammed palaeolake in Andorra (Spain), applying the FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) analysis, resulting in 6th order stratigraphic cycles, which have outlined the occurrence of system tracts and unconformities controlled by glacio-eustasy. Book chapters are separated into four main sections: i) introduction; ii) facies analysis and palaeo-ecology; iii) chemostratigraphy; iv) chronostratigraphy. There is one chapter in the first section, introducing the stratigraphic setting of Paleozoic to Miocene deposits based on different stratigraphic methodologies, including the facies analysis, the palaeecology, the chemostratigraphy and the chronostratigraphy. In the second section, there is one chapter dealing with the Oligocene-Miocene Asmari Formation, allowing for the recognition of several depositional environments based on sedimentological analysis, distribution of foraminifera and micropaleontological study. In the third section, there is one chapter aimed at addressing researches about the chemostratigraphy of cores, allowing for a significant increase of the stratigraphic knowledge existing on the Kinta Valley (Malaysia), coupled with an extensive field work on Paleozoic carbonates. In the fourth section, there is a chapter dealing with the high resolution chronostratigraphic setting of a palaeo-lake located in Andorra (Spain) and the inference with the MIS2 isotopic stage of Atlantic and Mediterranean regions in the regional geological setting of the south-eastern Pyrenees.