A successor to A Geologic Time Scale 1989 (Cambridge, 1990), this volume introduces the theory and methodology behind the construction of the new time scale, before presenting the scale itself in extensive detail. An international team of over forty stratigraphic experts develops the most up-to-date international stratigraphic framework for the Precambrian and Phanerozoic eras. A large wallchart (not available for eBook) summarizing the time scale at the back of the book completes this invaluable reference for researchers and students.
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"A triumph of scholarship, that will serve the professsion and the public well."
Episodes, June 2005, John A. Van Couvering
"The editors have succeeded admirably in compiling a work that is dense with information but is both beautiful in layout and extremely readable...The book is a masterpiece of presentation...an amazing work that provides a new standard for both geochronology, and for committee-driven scientific project reports."
The Leading Edge, John Stockwell
Episodes, June 2005, John A. Van Couvering
"The editors have succeeded admirably in compiling a work that is dense with information but is both beautiful in layout and extremely readable...The book is a masterpiece of presentation...an amazing work that provides a new standard for both geochronology, and for committee-driven scientific project reports."
The Leading Edge, John Stockwell
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An international team of over forty stratigraphic experts have helped to build the most up to date international stratigraphic framework for the Precambrian and Phanerozoic. As successor to A Geologic Time Scale 1989 by W. Brian Harland et al., it first introduces the theory and methodology behind the construction of the new time scale, before presenting the scale itself in extensive detail. A large wallchart summarising the whole time scale is included in the back of the book. This is an invaluable reference source for researchers and students.
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Curiously Defected,
By ymatsui4 "Y. Matsui" (Tanashi, Tokyo Japan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Geologic Time Scale 2004 (Paperback)
This is titled as '2004', and published in 2005: Then we expect explanation of the Ediacaran Period just proposed to IUGC and ratified in Spring 2004. Nevertheless there is no chapter for this new and curious Period, and more surprisingly, no discussion is made on Cambrian-Ediacaran boundary which should have been a grave subject for International Commission of Stratigraphy (This book is formally written by members of the Commission). A truly disappointing feature for the 'latest' book.
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method calibration, polarity clitoris, platynota zone, equal subzones, belemnite zone, poor biostratigraphic constraint, elegans ammonite zone, subzonal units, stratotype candidates, planktonic foraminifer zones, cycle stratigraphy, baylei zone, stratotype point, near lowest occurrence, chronogram method, ammonoid zones, magnetic polarity chrons, ammonite zones, substage boundary, ammonoid zonation, concordant analyses, time scale building, zonal bases, radiometric age dates, ammonite subzone Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, Late Cretaceous, South Atlantic, Western Interior, Cambridge University Press, British Columbia, Groupe Français, Donetz Basin, Triassic Jurassic, The Cretaceous Period, The Neogene Period, Aptian Stage, Late Jurassic, Early Cambrian, South China, Middle Cambrian, Central Asia, North Atlantic, The Paleogene Period, Early Cretaceous, Moscow Basin, The Jurassic Period, Calpionellid Zone, The Devonian Period, The Triassic Period Browse Sample Pages:
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method calibration, polarity clitoris, platynota zone, equal subzones, belemnite zone, poor biostratigraphic constraint, elegans ammonite zone, subzonal units, stratotype candidates, planktonic foraminifer zones, cycle stratigraphy, baylei zone, stratotype point, near lowest occurrence, chronogram method, ammonoid zones, magnetic polarity chrons, ammonite zones, substage boundary, ammonoid zonation, concordant analyses, time scale building, zonal bases, radiometric age dates, ammonite subzone Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, Late Cretaceous, South Atlantic, Western Interior, Cambridge University Press, British Columbia, Groupe Français, Donetz Basin, Triassic Jurassic, The Cretaceous Period, The Neogene Period, Aptian Stage, Late Jurassic, Early Cambrian, South China, Middle Cambrian, Central Asia, North Atlantic, The Paleogene Period, Early Cretaceous, Moscow Basin, The Jurassic Period, Calpionellid Zone, The Devonian Period, The Triassic Period Browse Sample Pages:
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