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The Idea of Global Events: A Prologue.- I General Themes.- Patterns and Causes of Global Events.- Evaluating Paleontologic Data Relating to Bio-Events.- Patterns of Phanerozoic Extinction: A Perspective from Global Data Bases.- Phanerozoic Development of Selected Global Environmental Features.- Global Isotopic Events.- II Phanerozoic Global Bio-Events.- Geobiological Trends and Events in the Precambrian Biosphere.- The Basal Cambrian Transition and Cambrian Bio-Events (From Terminal Proterozoic Extinctions to Cambrian Biomeres).- The Pattern of Global Bio-Events during the Ordovician Period.- Silurian Bio-Events.- Global Events in the Devonian and Carboniferous.- Permian Global Bio-Events.- Major Bio-Events in the Triassic and Jurassic.- Cretaceous Bio-Events.- The Man-Made Global Disaster: An Epilogue to the Subject of Global Bio-Events.- III Phanerozoic Global Event-Stratigraphy.- Christopher R. Barnes et al. (compiled by all authors of this volume).