The geologic time scale 2012. Vol.1 / ed. by F.M.Gradstein et al. - Oxford: Elsevier, 2012. - xviii, 435 p.: ill. - Bibliogr. at the end of the chapters. - ISBN 978-0-44-459390-0  Место хранения:   02 | Отделение ГПНТБ СО РАН | Новосибирск

Оглавление / Contents

Contributors ................................................... ix Editors' Biographies ......................................... xiii Preface ........................................................ xv Abbreviations and acronyms ................................... xvii 1 Introduction ................................................. 1 F.M. Gradstein 2 The Chronostratigraphic Scale ............................... 31 F.M. Gradstein and J.G. Ogg 3 Biochronology ............................................... 43 F.M. Gradstein 4 Cyclostratigraphy and Astrochronology ....................... 63 L.A. Hinnov and F.J. Hilgen 5 Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale ............................. 85 J.C. Ogg 6 Radiogenic Isotope Geochronology ........................... 115 M.D. Schmitz 7 Strontium Isotope Stratigraphy ............................. 127 J.M. McArthur, R.J. Howarth and G.A. Shields 8 Osmium Isotope Stratigraphy ................................ 145 B. Peucker-Ehrenbrink and G. Ravizza 9 Sulfur Isotope Stratigraphy ................................ 167 A. Paytan and E.T. Gray 10 Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy ................................ 181 E.L. Grossman 11 Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy ................................ 207 M.R. Saltzman and E. Thomas 12 A Brief History of Plants on Earth ......................... 233 S.R. Gradstein and H. Kerp 13 Sequence Stratigraphy and Sea-Level Change ................. 239 M.D. Simmons 14 Statistical Procedures ..................................... 269 F.P. Agterberg, O. Hammer and F.M. Gradstein 15 The Planetary Time Scale ................................... 275 K.L. Tanaka and W.K. Hartmann 16 A Chronostratigraphic Division of the Precambrian .......... 299 M.J. Van Kranendonk and Contributors 17 The Cryogenian Period ...................................... 393 G.A. Shields-Zhou, A.C. Hill and B.A. Macgabhann 18 The Ediacaran Period ....................................... 413 G.M. Narbonne, S. Xiao and G.A. Shields