
The Geologic Time Scale 2012
Elsevier (Publisher)
Published on 22. August 2012
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1176 pages
978-0-444-59425-9 (ISBN)
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The Geologic Time Scale 2012, winner of a 2012 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Best Multi-volume Reference in Science from the Association of American Publishers, is the framework for deciphering the history of our planet Earth. The authors have been at the forefront of chronostratigraphic research and initiatives to create an international geologic time scale for many years, and the charts in this book present the most up-to-date, international standard, as ratified by the International Commission on Stratigraphy and the International Union of Geological Sciences. This 2012 geologic time scale is an enhanced, improved and expanded version of the GTS2004, including chapters on planetary scales, the Cryogenian-Ediacaran periods/systems, a prehistory scale of human development, a survey of sequence stratigraphy, and an extensive compilation of stable-isotope chemostratigraphy.
This book is an essential reference for all geoscientists, including researchers, students, and petroleum and mining professionals. The presentation is non-technical and illustrated with numerous colour charts, maps and photographs. The book also includes a detachable wall chart of the complete time scale for use as a handy reference in the office, laboratory or field.
This book is an essential reference for all geoscientists, including researchers, students, and petroleum and mining professionals. The presentation is non-technical and illustrated with numerous colour charts, maps and photographs. The book also includes a detachable wall chart of the complete time scale for use as a handy reference in the office, laboratory or field.
Reviews / Votes
"...one of the main distinctions of the new version is the more detailed subdivision of the preceding Precambrian interval. As before, the earlier chapters of the book summarize the approaches used; they review the main methods of obtaining chronometric dates and calibrating them with geomagnetic polarity and orbital fluctuations, as well as the use of various stable isotopes in chronological and paleoenvironmental analysis...Required for specialist libraries and a valuable acquisition for other libraries lacking the 2004 edition." --CHOICE, April 2013More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Primary audience: professionals in industry (oil/gas/petrochemical industry), academic libraries, faculty chairs, graduate students/researchers. All geoscientists, more specifically biochronologists, evolutionary biologists, geo-engineers, space geo engineers, astronomers.
Secondary audience: geoscience students, university teachers; all stratigraphic and paleontologic, quaternary geoscientists; individuals.
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
3710 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-444-59425-9 (9780444594259)
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Felix Gradstein is Professor Emeritus at Oslo University, Norway and visiting Research Fellow, University of Portsmouth, UK. From 2000 to 2008, he was chair of the International Commission on Stratigraphy. Under his leadership major progress was made with the formal definition of chronostratigraphic units from Precambrian through Quaternary. For his fundamental work concerning the Geologic Time Scale, geochronology in general, quantitative stratigraphy and micropaleontology, the European Geosciences Union awarded him in 2010 the Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal. He is Chair of the Geologic Time Scale Foundation and teaches courses in quantitative stratigraphy and the geologic time scale. JAMES OGG (Professor at Purdue University, Indiana, USA) was Secretary General of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (2000-2008), and is currently serving as coordinator of that ICS stratigraphy information service. His Mesozoic Stratigraphy Lab group works on aspects of climate cycles, magnetic polarity correlations and integration of stratigraphic information. Their TimeScale Creator array of visualization tools for extensive databases in global and regional Earth history was used to generate many of the diagrams in this book. MARK SCHMITZ is Professor of Geochemistry at Boise State University, Idaho, USA, and has extensive research interests in the development and application of radiogenic isotope geochemistry and high-precision U-Pb geochronology to problems of Earth systems evolution. He has been an active member of the Earth Time community and was co-editor and author for the Geologic Time Scale 2012. He seeks to enrich the radioisotopic calibration of the time scale through targeted dating of stratigraphically important volcanic event beds and the construction of robust chronostratigraphic models through geologic time. His extensive database with over 300 standardized radiogenic isotope ages (mainly U/Pb and Ar/Ar) is vital to this book. GABI OGG applied micropaleontology to Jurassic-Cretaceous correlations before concentrating on public outreach in geosciences. She coordinated the extensive array of graphics in this book, and is the webmaster for the Geologic TimeScale Foundation (https://timescalefoundation.org) and for the TimeScale Creator visualization and database suites (https://timescalecreator.org). In addition to co-authoring the Concise Geologic TimeScale (GTS2016) and The Geologic Time Scale (GTS2012) books, she has produced numerous posters and time scale cards for public audiences.
Editor
Professor Emeritus, Oslo University, Norway and visiting Research Fellow, University of Portsmouth, UK
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Boise State University, Idaho, USA; Geochronology
Geologic TimeScale Foundation, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA; Paleontology, geo-graphics
Content
Volume 1
PART I INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction, F. M. Gradstein
2. Chronostratigraphy: linking time and rock, F. M. Gradstein and j. G. Ogg
PART II CONCEPTS AND METHODS
3. Biochronology, F.M.Gradstein
4. Cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology, L. A.hinnov and f.j.hilgen
5. The geomagnetic polarity time scale, J. G. Ogg
6. Radiogenic isotopes geochronology, M.Schmitz And M. Villeneuve
7. Strontium isotope stratigraphy, J. M. Mcarthur, R. J. Howarth and G.Shields
8. Osmium isotope stratigraphy, B. Peucker-Ehrenbrink and G. Ravizza
9. Sulfur isotope stratigraphy, A. Paytan
10. Oxygen isotope stratigraphy, E. Grossman
11. Carbon isotope stratigraphy, M. Saltzman and E. Thomas
12. A Brief History of Plants on Earth S.R. Gradstein and H. Kerp
13. Sequence chronostratigraphy, M. Simmons
14. Statistical procedures, F. P. Agterberg, O. Hammer and F.M. Gradstein
PART III
15. The Planetary time scale, K.TANAKA AND B.HARTMANN
16. The Precambrian: the Archean and Proterozoic Eons, M.van Kranendonk and co-authors
17. The Cryogenian Period, G. A. Shields, A.C. Hill and B. A. MacGabhann
18. The Ediacaran Period, G. Narbonne, S. Xiao and G.A. Shields
Bibliography
Volume 2
PART IV GEOLOGIC PERIODS PHANEROZOIC
19. The Cambrian Period, S. Peng, L. Babcock and R. A. Cooper
20. The Ordovician Period, R. A. Cooper and P. M. Sadler
21. The Silurian Period, M. J. Melchin, R. A. Cooper and P. M. Sadler
22. The Devonian Period, T. Becker, F. M. Gradstein and O. Hammer
23. The Carboniferous Period, V. Davydov, D. Korn and M. Schmitz
24. The Permian Period, CH. Henderson, V. Davydov and B. Wardlaw
25. The Triassic Period, J. G. Ogg
26. The Jurassic Period, J. G. Ogg
27. The Cretaceous Period, J. G. Ogg and L. Hinnov
28. The Paleogene Period, N. Vandenberghe, R. Speijer and F.J. Hilgen
29. The Neogene Period, F.J. Hilgen, L. Lourens, and J. van Dam
30. The Quaternary Period, B. Pillans and P. Gibbard
31. The Prehistoric Human Time Scale, J.A. Catt and M.A. Maslin
32. The Anthropocene, J.Z Alasiewicz, P. Crutzen and W. Steffen
Appendix 1- Recommended color coding of stages
Appendix 2 - Radiometric ages used in GTS2012, M.D. Schmitz
Appendix 3 - Biochronology of Paleogene and Neogene Microfossils, E. Anthonissen, J.G. Ogg.
PART I INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction, F. M. Gradstein
2. Chronostratigraphy: linking time and rock, F. M. Gradstein and j. G. Ogg
PART II CONCEPTS AND METHODS
3. Biochronology, F.M.Gradstein
4. Cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology, L. A.hinnov and f.j.hilgen
5. The geomagnetic polarity time scale, J. G. Ogg
6. Radiogenic isotopes geochronology, M.Schmitz And M. Villeneuve
7. Strontium isotope stratigraphy, J. M. Mcarthur, R. J. Howarth and G.Shields
8. Osmium isotope stratigraphy, B. Peucker-Ehrenbrink and G. Ravizza
9. Sulfur isotope stratigraphy, A. Paytan
10. Oxygen isotope stratigraphy, E. Grossman
11. Carbon isotope stratigraphy, M. Saltzman and E. Thomas
12. A Brief History of Plants on Earth S.R. Gradstein and H. Kerp
13. Sequence chronostratigraphy, M. Simmons
14. Statistical procedures, F. P. Agterberg, O. Hammer and F.M. Gradstein
PART III
15. The Planetary time scale, K.TANAKA AND B.HARTMANN
16. The Precambrian: the Archean and Proterozoic Eons, M.van Kranendonk and co-authors
17. The Cryogenian Period, G. A. Shields, A.C. Hill and B. A. MacGabhann
18. The Ediacaran Period, G. Narbonne, S. Xiao and G.A. Shields
Bibliography
Volume 2
PART IV GEOLOGIC PERIODS PHANEROZOIC
19. The Cambrian Period, S. Peng, L. Babcock and R. A. Cooper
20. The Ordovician Period, R. A. Cooper and P. M. Sadler
21. The Silurian Period, M. J. Melchin, R. A. Cooper and P. M. Sadler
22. The Devonian Period, T. Becker, F. M. Gradstein and O. Hammer
23. The Carboniferous Period, V. Davydov, D. Korn and M. Schmitz
24. The Permian Period, CH. Henderson, V. Davydov and B. Wardlaw
25. The Triassic Period, J. G. Ogg
26. The Jurassic Period, J. G. Ogg
27. The Cretaceous Period, J. G. Ogg and L. Hinnov
28. The Paleogene Period, N. Vandenberghe, R. Speijer and F.J. Hilgen
29. The Neogene Period, F.J. Hilgen, L. Lourens, and J. van Dam
30. The Quaternary Period, B. Pillans and P. Gibbard
31. The Prehistoric Human Time Scale, J.A. Catt and M.A. Maslin
32. The Anthropocene, J.Z Alasiewicz, P. Crutzen and W. Steffen
Appendix 1- Recommended color coding of stages
Appendix 2 - Radiometric ages used in GTS2012, M.D. Schmitz
Appendix 3 - Biochronology of Paleogene and Neogene Microfossils, E. Anthonissen, J.G. Ogg.