A Geologic Time Scale 2004
A Geologic Time Scale 2004
James G. Ogg, Purdue University, Indiana
Alan G. Smith, University of Cambridge
$98.99
USDAn international team of over forty stratigraphic experts have helped to build the most up-to-date international stratigraphic framework for the Precambrian and Phanerozoic. This successor to A Geologic Time Scale 1989 by W. Brian Harland et al. (CUP 0521 387655) begins with an introduction to the theory and methodology behind the construction of the new time scale. The main part of the book is devoted to the scale itself, systematically presenting the standard subdivisions at all levels using a variety of correlation markers. Extensive use is made of isotope geochronology, geomathematics and orbital tuning to produce a standard geologic scale of unprecedented detail and accuracy with a full error analysis. A wallchart summarising the whole time scale, with paleogeographic reconstructions throughout the Phanerozoic, is included in the back of the book. The time scale will be an invaluable reference source for academic and professional researchers and students.
- The most detailed international geologic time scale available
- Includes a full-colour wallchart
- Compiled by international team of experts
- Ratified by the International Commission on Stratigraphy
- Uses the foremost methodologies
Reviews & endorsements
"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
Product details
April 2005Paperback
9780521786737
610 pages
275 × 218 × 39 mm
1.896kg
164 b/w illus. 24 colour illus. 63 tables
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Introduction:
- 1. Introduction F. M. Gradstein
- 2. Chronostratigraphy - linking time and rock F. M. Gradstein, J. G. Ogg and A. G. Smith
- Part II. Concepts and Methods:
- 3. Biostratigraphy F. M. Gradstein, R. A. Cooper and P. M. Sadler
- 4. Earth's orbital parameters and cycle stratigraphy L. A. Hinnov
- 5. The geomagnetic polarity time scale J. G. Ogg and A. G. Smith
- 6. Radiogenic isotope geochronology M. Villeneuve
- 7. Stable isotopes J. M. McArthur and R. J. Howarth
- 8. Geomathematics F. P. Agterberg
- Part III. Geologic Periods:
- 9. The Precambrian: the Archaen and Proterozoic eons L. J. Robb, A. H. Knoll, K. A. Plumb, G. A. Shields, H. Strauss and J. Veizer
- 10. Toward a 'natural' Precambrian time scale W. Bleeker
- 11. The Cambrian period J. H. Shergold and R. A. Cooper
- 12. The Ordovician period R. A. Cooper and P. M. Sadler
- 13. The Silurian period M. J. Melchin, R. A. Cooper and P. M. Sadler
- 14. The Devonian period M. R. House and F. M. Gradstein
- 15. The Carboniferous period V. Davydov, B. R. Wardlaw and F. M. Gradstein
- 16. The Permian period B. R. Wardlaw, V. Davydov and F. M. Gradstein
- 17. The Triassic period J. G. Ogg
- 18. The Jurassic period J. G. Ogg
- 19. The Cretaceous Period J. G. Ogg, F. P. Agterberg and F. M. Gradstein
- 20. The Paleogene period H. P. Luterbacher, J. R. Ali, H. Brinkhuis, F. M. Gradstein, J. J. Hooker, S. Monechi, J. G. Ogg, J. Powell, U. Röhl, A. Sanfilippo, and B. Schmitz
- 21. The Neogene period L. Lourens, F. Hilgen, N. J. Shackleton, J. Laskar and D. Wilson
- 22. The Pleistocene and Holocene epochs P. Gibbard and T. van Kolfschoten
- Part IV. Summary:
- 23. Construction and summary of the geologic time scale F. M.. Gradstein, J. G. Ogg and A. G. Smith
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Stratigraphic index
- General index.
