A Geologic Time Scale 2004 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521786738 ISBN 13: 9780521786737

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

A successor to A Geologic Time Scale 1989 (Cambridge, 1990), this volume introduces the theory and methodology behind the construction of the new time scale, before presenting the scale itself in extensive detail. An international team of over forty stratigraphic experts develops the most up-to-date international stratigraphic framework for the Precambrian and Phanerozoic eras. A large wallchart (not available for eBook) summarizing the time scale at the back of the book completes this invaluable reference for researchers and students.

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Book Description

An international team of over forty stratigraphic experts have helped to build the most up to date international stratigraphic framework for the Precambrian and Phanerozoic. As successor to A Geologic Time Scale 1989 by W. Brian Harland et al., it first introduces the theory and methodology behind the construction of the new time scale, before presenting the scale itself in extensive detail. A large wallchart summarising the whole time scale is included in the back of the book. This is an invaluable reference source for researchers and students.

Review

"A triumph of scholarship, that will serve the professsion and the public well."
Episodes, June 2005, John A. Van Couvering

"The editors have succeeded admirably in compiling a work that is dense with information but is both beautiful in layout and extremely readable...The book is a masterpiece of presentation...an amazing work that provides a new standard for both geochronology, and for committee-driven scientific project reports."
The Leading Edge, John Stockwell

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521786738
• ISBN 13: 9780521786737
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 610
• Editor: Gradstein Felix M., Ogg James G., Smith Alan G.