The Pleistocene Boundary and the Beginning of the QuaternaryJohn A van Couvering, John A. Van Couvering Cambridge University Press, 16 déc. 2004 - 320 pages 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 International Geological Correlation Project 41, describes the selection of a fixed reference point in the sequence of deep-water marine strata exposed at Vrica, Italy. This point, dated to 1.81 million years before the present, coincides with the onset of the first of four major glacial phases. The opening chapters of the book document the geology and palaeontology of the agreed physical reference point, and the successful proposal of this point as the boundary-stratotype of the Pleistocene Epoch. The book then describes the correlation of the boundary throughout the ocean basins and continents of the world in terms of detailed stratigraphic criteria such as planktonic biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy and radiometric age determinations. |
Table des matières
International Geological Correlation Program Project | 3 |
Hiroshi Kitazato Giancarlo Pasini | 46 |
Geologisches Institut der Universität zu Köln Moscow 109017 Russia | 49 |
Department of Geology and Mineralogy | 57 |
22 | 91 |
20 | 98 |
Martinotti | 106 |
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales CSIC | 141 |
Biostratigraphy and calibrated climatic chronology | 178 |
HISAO NAKAGAWA NOBUAKI NIITSUMA TOSHIAKI TAKAYAMA | 185 |
ITARU KOIZUMI | 191 |
ISABELLA RAFFI AND ROBERT THUNELL | 201 |
The PliocenePleistocene boundary in Romania | 216 |
The NQ boundary in Asian Russia | 227 |
H BASIL S COOKE | 254 |
29 | 273 |
Stratigraphy of the PlioPleistocene sequence of | 156 |
The PliocenePleistocene transition in the Iberian | 169 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Aguirre assemblage Azzaroli Backman baltica base basin Berggren biostratigraphy Boso Peninsula boundary-stratotype Brunhes Calabria Calabrian Stage Catanzaro Cenozoic Chapter clays climate component-section correlation CYTHEROPTERON dated datum Deep Sea Drilling deep-sea deposits diatom Discoaster brouweri DSDP early Pleistocene Eburonian Equus fauna Figure foraminifera Formation fossil Gauss Geol Geological Gephyrocapsa spp Globorotalia Gvirtzman horizon INQUA interval islandica Italy Jaramillo laminites late Pliocene layer Lower Pleistocene macintyrei magnetostratigraphy mammal marine marker bed Matuyama Mediterranean Mimomys Miocene Nakagawa Neogene Neogene/Quaternary boundary Nikiforova normal-polarity occurrence oceanica Olduvai Olduvai subchron Olivola Opdyke Pacific paleomagnetic Paleontol Pasini and Colalongo Piacenzian plankton Pleistocene boundary Plio Plio-Pleistocene pliocaenicus Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary polarity pollen Project 41 proposed Quaternary Raffi Raffi and Rio region Ruggieri Santerno sapropels Sea Drilling Project sediments Selli sequence Shackleton southern species Sprovieri stage stratigraphic stratotype studies Tiglian truncatulinoides Tuff Upper Pliocene USSR Villafranchian volume Vrica section Zagwijn zone