Abbreviations and acronyms ..................................... ix
19 The Cambrian Period ....................................... 437
S. Peng, L.E. Babcock and R.A. Cooper
20 The Ordovician Period ..................................... 489
R.A. Cooper and P.M. Sadler
21 The Silurian Period ....................................... 525
M.J. Melchin, P.M. Sadler and B.D. Cramer
22 The Devonian Period ....................................... 559
R.T. Becker, F.M. Gradstein and O. Hammer
23 The Carboniferous Period .................................. 603
V.I. Davydov, D. Korn, M.D. Schmitz
24 The Permian Period ........................................ 653
C.M. Henderson, V.l. Davydov and B.R. Wardlaw
25 Triassic .................................................. 681
J.C. Ogg
26 Jurassic .................................................. 731
J.G. Ogg and L.A. Hinnov
27 Cretaceous ................................................ 793
J.G. Ogg and L.A. Hinnov
28 The Paleogene Period ...................................... 855
N. Vandenberghe, F.J. Hilgen, R.P. Speijer
29 The Neogene Period ........................................ 923
F.J. Hilgen, L.J. Lourens and J.A. Van Dam
30 The Quaternary Period ..................................... 979
B. Pillans and P. Gibbard
31 The Prehistoric Human Time Scale ......................... 1011
J.A. Catt and M.A. Maslin
32 The Anthropocene ......................................... 1033
J. Zalasiewicz, P.J. Crutzen and W. Steffen
Appendix 1: Color Codes for Geological Timescales ............ 1041
Appendix 2: Radiometric ages used in GTS2012 ................. 1045
Appendix 3: Cenozoic and Cretaceous Biochronology of
Planktonic Foraminifera and Calcareous
Nannofossils ..................................... 1083
Index ........................................................ 1129
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