The Nature of the Stratigraphical Record
3rd Edition
Published on 13. January 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
166 pages
978-0-471-93808-8 (ISBN)
Description
A textbook on the general pattern of Earth history which attempts to stimulate thought and debate in students concerned with the subject of geology as a uniform science rather than as a group of separated specialities.
More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
illustrations, index
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-93808-8 (9780471938088)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
The persistence of facies; the fleeting fossil; more gaps than record; catastrophic stratigraphy; catastrophic uniformitarianism; the process of sedimentation; Marxist stratigraphy and the golden spike; the nature of the control.