Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 296 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511585760
Series Statement:
World and regional geology 9
Content:
The Pleistocene Boundary and the Beginning of the Quaternary presents the results of a forty-year international program to establish a precise definition for the most important boundary in geologic time – the beginning of the modern age of glacial climates. This book, the final report of International Geological Correlation Project 41, describes the selection of a fixed reference point in the sequence of deep-water marine strata exposed at Vrica, Italy. This point, dated to 1.81 million years before the present, coincides with the onset of the first of four major glacial phases. The opening chapters of the book document the geology and palaeontology of the agreed physical reference point, and the successful proposal of this point as the boundary-stratotype of the Pleistocene Epoch. The book then describes the correlation of the boundary throughout the ocean basins and continents of the world in terms of detailed stratigraphic criteria such as planktonic biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy and radiometric age determinations
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Preface: the new Pleistocene
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Foreword
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1. International Geological Correlation Program, Project 41: "Negogene/Quaternary Boundary"
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2. The Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary-stratotype at Vrica, Italy
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3. The magnetostratigraphy of the Vrica section, Italy, and its correlation with the Plio-Pleistocene of the Boso Peninsula, Japan
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4. Comparison of the laminated units at Vrica and deep-sea sapropels from the eastern Mediterranean
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521341158
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521617024
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521341158
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511585760
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