The Concise Geologic Time Scale

This concise handbook presents a summary of Earth's history over the past 4.5 billion years as well as a brief overview of contemporaneous events on the Moon, Mars and Venus. 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 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 laminated card of the complete time scale for use as a handy reference in the office, laboratory or field.

ISBN 0521898498   Pages 184 ISBN13 9780521898492 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 680 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Hardback   Height (mm) 246 Publication date 04 Sep 2008   Width (mm) 189 Library of Congress 2008025656   Spine width (mm) 14 DEWEY 551.701   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		Introduction		1
2		Planetary time scale by Kenneth L. Tanaka and William K. Hartmann		13
3		Precambrian by Martin J. Van Kranendonk and James Gehling and Graham Shields		23
4		Cambrian Period by Shanchi Peng and Loren Babcock		37
5		Ordovician Period		47
6		Silurian Period		51
7		Devonian Period		65
8		Carboniferous Period by Philip H. Heckel		73
9		Permian Period		85
10		Triassic Period		95
11		Jurassic Period		107
12		Cretaceous Period		117
13		Paleogene Period		129
14		Neogene Period		139
15		Quaternary Period by Philip Gibbard and Kim Cohen and James Ogg		149
App. 1		Standard colors of international divisions of geologic time		159
App. 2		Ratified GSSPs for geologic stages		162
		Index		170

'... practical ... can be reliably recommended for any geologist who regularly refers to the time scale.' Geological Magazine 'One cannot help being struck by the amount of information in this volume ... a triumph of scholarship, that will serve the profession and the public well.' Episodes 'The book is an inspiring leader in practical stratigraphy, its philosophical roots, and its prime product: The Geologic Time Scale. It is a very important publication for graduate scholars, scientists, and sedimentologists, hydrogeologists, and petroleum geologists.' Environmental Geology '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 'This is a volume that should be in all good geological libraries.' Geological Magazine 'At GBP20, in hardback, with a really stout long lasting binding and a plastic wipe-clean cover, on glossy full colour pages, an immense amount of minutely assessed factual information, supplied by innumerable workers, is summarised and clearly and succinctly presented. This is unequivocally recommended. Although research will result in newer versions, this edition will suffice for many for some time to come, if not 1myr!' Geoscientist ' ... the new book by Ogg et al. will become a true gift for everyone in the geosciences. The authors talentedly prepared an ultimate reference on the chronostratigraphical knowledge, which permits to feel as a growth of the present interest to the geologic time subdivision as the main achievements in this direction.' Palaontologie allgem

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