The geologic time scale 2012 /

Felix M. Gradstein and others

The geologic time scale 2012 / editors, Felix M. Gradstein ... [et al.] ; [contributors, F. M. Gradstein ... [et al.]]. - 1st ed. - Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, c2012. - 2 v. (xviii, 1144 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 1 col. chart (72 x 102 cm., folded to 26 x 18 cm.)

One chart in pocket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. The chronostratigraphic scale / F.M. Gradstein and J.G. Ogg -- Biochronology / F.M. Gradstein -- Cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology / L.A. Hinnov and F.J. Hilgen -- Geomagnetic polarity time scale / J.G. Ogg -- Radiogenic isotope geochronology / M.D. Schmitz -- Strontium isotope stratigraphy / J.M. McArthur, R.J. Howarth and G.A. Shields -- Osmium isotope stratigraphy / B. Peucker-Ehrenbrink and G. Ravizza -- Sulfur isotope stratigraphy / A. Paytan and E.T. Gray -- Oxygen isotope stratigraphy / E.L. Grossman -- Carbon isotope stratigraphy / M.R. Saltzman and E. Thomas -- A brief history of plants on earth / S.R. Gradstein and H. Kerp -- Sequence stratigraphy and sea-level change / M.D. Simmons -- Statistical procedures / F.P. Agterberg, O. Hammer and F.M. Gradstein -- The planetary time sclae / K.L. Tanaka and W.K. Hartmann -- A chronostratigraphic division of the Precambrian / M.J. Van Kranendonk and contributors -- The Cryogenian period / G.A. Shields-Zhou, A.C. Hill and B.A. Macgabhann -- The Ediacaran period / G.M. Narbonne, S. Xiao and G.A. Shields. v. 2. The Cambrian period / S. Peng, L.E. Babcock and R.A. Cooper -- The Ordovician period / R.A. Cooper and P.M. Sadler -- The Silurian period / M.J. Melchin, P.M. Sadler and B.D, Cramer -- The Devonian period / R.T. Becker, F.M. Gradstein and O. Hammer -- The Carboniferous period / V.I. Davydov, D. Korn, M.D. Schmitz -- The Permian period / C.M. Henderson, V.I Davydov and B.R. Wardlaw -- Triassic / J.G. Ogg -- Jurassic / J.G. Ogg and L.A. Hinnov -- Cretaceous / J.G. Ogg and L.A. Hinnov -- The Paleogene period / N. Vendenberghe, F.J. Hilgen, R.P. Speijer -- The Neogene period / F.J. Hilgen, L.J. Lourens and J.A. Van Dam -- The Quaternary period / B. Pillans and P. Gibbard -- The prehistoric human time scale / J.A. Catt and M.A. Maslin -- The Anthropocene / J. Zalasiewicz, P.J. Crutzen and W. Steffen -- Appendix 1. Color codes for geological time scales -- Appendix 2. Radiometric ages used in GTS2012 -- Appendix 3. Cenozoic and Cretaceous biochronology of planktonic foraminifera and calcareous nannofossils.

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