A Geologic Time Scale 2004

Felix M. Gradstein, James G. Ogg, Alan G. Smith

Cambridge University Press, 2004 - Science - 589 pages

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. 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.

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Contents

• GRADSTEIN: 3
• JOHN MCARTHUR FREDERIK J HILGEN: 4
• ROGER A COOPER Sigwartstrasse: 10
• London WC1E 6BT 3584 CD Utrecht: 28
• linking time and rock: 31
• time scales from: 49
• Earths orbital parameters and cycle: 61
• Radiogenic isotope geochronology: 87
• Summary and conclusions: 95
• RICHARD J HOWARTH: 96
• Comments on the LOWESS fit: 102
• Paleozoic applications: 110
• Late Cretaceous and Paleogene applications: 117
• Concluding remarks: 124
• History and recommended subdivision: 130
• Toward a natural Precambrian: 141
• The Cambrian Period: 147
• The Ordovician Period: 165
• The Silurian Period: 188
• The Devonian Period: 202
• The Carboniferous Period: 222
• The Permian Period: 249
• The Triassic Period: 271
• University of the Witwatersrand London WC1E: 275
• The Jurassic Period: 307
• MIKE VILLENEUVE: 322
• The Cretaceous Period: 344
• The Paleogene Period: 384
• 1: 403
• J LASKAR AND D WILSON: 409
• The Pleistocene and Holocene Epochs: 441
• 23: 455
• BRUCE R WARDLAW: 496
• 256: 516
• Geological Time Section D72076 Tubingen: 525
• 280: 528
• 307: 534
• 326: 542
• 339: 558
• HENK BRINKHUIS: 559
• 469: 574
• Utrecht University KENNETH A PLUMB: 577
• 344: 587

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Geologic Time Scale 2004; A Geologic Time Scale 2004, Canada. Natural Resources Canada; Volume 86 of Miscellaneous report
• Editors: Felix M. Gradstein, James G. Ogg, Alan G. Smith
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0521786738, 9780521786737
• Length: 589 pages
• Subjects: Science / Earth Sciences / General; Science / Earth Sciences / Geology; Science / Earth Sciences / Sedimentology & Stratigraphy