The Pleistocene boundary and the beginning of the Quaternary [E-Book] / edited by John A. Van Couvering ; associate editors, Emiliano Aguirre, Mikhail N. Alekseev, Giancarlo Pasini.
The Pleistocene boundary and the beginning of the Quaternary [E-Book] / edited by John A. Van Couvering ; associate editors, Emiliano Aguirre, Mikhail N. Alekseev, Giancarlo Pasini.
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 Internation...
| Personal Name(s): | Van Couvering, John A., (editor) |
|---|---|
| Aguirre, Emiliano, (editor) / Alekseev, Mikhail N., (editor) / Pasini, Giancarlo, (editor) | |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1997
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxi, 296 pages) |
| Note: |
englisch |
| ISBN: |
9780511585760 9780521341158 9780521617024 |
| Series Title: |
World and regional geology ;
9 |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: the new Pleistocene /
- John A. Van Couvering
- Foreword /
- Ksenia V. Nikiforova
- 1.
- International Geological Correlation Program, Project 41: "Negogene/Quaternary Boundary" /
- Ksenia V. Nikiforova and Mikhail N. Alekseev
- 2.
- The Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary-stratotype at Vrica, Italy /
- Giancarlo Pasini and Maria Luisa Colalongo
- 3.
- The magnetostratigraphy of the Vrica section, Italy, and its correlation with the Plio-Pleistocene of the Boso Peninsula, Japan /
- Hisao Nakagawa, Nobuaki Niitsuma and Toshiaki Takayama [and others]
- 4.
- Comparison of the laminated units at Vrica and deep-sea sapropels from the eastern Mediterranean /
- Isabella Raffi and Robert Thunell.