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Earth-Science Reviews, 1999
Abstract Stratigraphy is a magnificent subject—magnificent in its breadth and scope, magnificent in its importance to so many lines of human endeavor. It is essentially that branch of geology which deals with the arrangement, the distribution, and the chronological succession of rock strata (and other associated rock bodies), with respect to any or
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Abstract Stratigraphy is a magnificent subject—magnificent in its breadth and scope, magnificent in its importance to so many lines of human endeavor. It is essentially that branch of geology which deals with the arrangement, the distribution, and the chronological succession of rock strata (and other associated rock bodies), with respect to any or
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With Île-de-France as its stratotype region, the Lutetian is an internationally recognized and even famous geological stage. The fossils found in it, the monuments built with stone of that age and the historical figures who took an interest in it all justify this notoriety.
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Stratotypes and an International Geochronologic Scale
1978Abstract An international geochronologic scale is needed in order to provide a single universal standard of reference for dating rock strata, or events recorded in rock strata, anywhere in the world. There are many possible means of relating rock strata and the geologic events they record to the passage of ...
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Chapter A5 Langhian, serravallian, and tortonian historical stratotypes
1995Publisher Summary This chapter discusses Langhian, Serravallian, and Tortonian historical stratotypes. Chronostratigraphy does represent a basic common language of communication in Earth Sciences. However, most chronostratigraphic units of the standard Geologic Time Scale lack an appropriate and rigid definition in the rock stratigraphic record ...
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Chapter A1 The aquitanian historical stratotype
1995Publisher Summary The Aquitanian fossiliferous marine deposits underlie a dark grey limestone with Planorbis and Limnaea. This unit is considered to be the top of the Aquitanian in this area. A level with Pecten beudanti is found above it, and contains a new fauna characteristic of the Burdigalian.
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Chapter A2 The burdigalian historical stratotype
1995Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the burdigalian historical stratotype. The term Burdigalian (from Burdigala , Latin name for the city of Bordeaux in the Roman time) was proposed as a stage name by Deperet (1892) in two distinct French areas, the Bordeaux area and the Rhone valley: “ … on doit distinguer dans le Miocene matin un grand etage ...
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A late Asbian (Mississippian) stratotype for England: Trowbarrow Quarry, Cumbria, UK
Papers in Palaeontology, 2022Tereza Kamenikova +2 more
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