Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy
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This page will be used to draw interested workers attention to recent articles, webpages etc. that are of interest to Quaternary stratigraphers. If you have any material you would like to add, please send it in web-ready format by e-mail to the Chairman, Phil Gibbard .Recent publications (some may be downloadable).
Lyell, Ch. 1830 Principles of Geology. John Murray, London. Electronic facsimile. Electronic Scholarly PublishingGibbard, P.L. 2003 Definition of the Middle–Upper Pleistocene boundary. Global and Planetary Change 36, 201–208.
Shackleton, N.J., Sanchez-Goni, M.F., Paillerc, D., & Lancelot, Y. 2003 Marine Isotope Substage 5e and the Eemian Interglacial. Global and Planetary Change 36, 151–155.
Ravazzi, C. 2003 An overview of the Quaternary continental stratigraphic units based on biological and climatic events in Italy. Il Quaternario - Volume Speciale INQUA Italian Journal of Quaternary Sciences 16, 11-18.
Pillans, B. 2003 Subdividing the Pleistocene using the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary (MBB): an Australian perspective. Quaternary Science Reviews. 22, 1569-1578.
Ebbing, J.H.J., Weerts, H.J.T. & Westerhoff, W.E. 2003. Towards an integrated land-sea stratigraphy of the Netherlands. Quaternary Science Reviews. 22, 1579-1588. **see also NITG-TNO webpages for additional detail.
Zalasiewicz, J., Smith, A., Brenchley, P., Evans, J., Knox, R., Riley, N., Gale, A., Gregory, F.J., Rushton, A., Gibbard, P. , Hesselbo, S., Marshall, J., Oates, M., Rawson, P., & Trewin, N. 2004. Simplifying the stratigraphy of time. Geology 32, 1-4.
Gilles Serge ODIN, Silvia GARDIN, Francis ROBASZYNSKI & Jacques THIERRY 2004 Carnets de Géologie/Notebooks on Geology / article 2004/02 (CG2004_A02) Stage boundaries, global stratigraphy, and the time scale: towards a simplification. This paper examines four facets of stratigraphic terminology and usage considered faulty and proposes corrective measures.
Details of the proposed book: International Geological Time Scale: Stages and Boundaries.
Jim Ogg and StanFinney are developing a book that will have the title 'International Geological Time Scale: Stages and Boundaries'. It will be composed of chapters devoted to each system. It will probably go back only to Cambrian, although we welcome suggestions on how best to address the Precambrian. Each chapter will follow the model developed for the Ordovician System (cf. example chapter, below). It includes a brief introduction on the system, description of the system boundaries and their GSSPs, a discussion of the history or rationale for the series and stages used to subdivide the system, and it follows with descriptions of GSSPs for each stage boundary. Besides the model for the text that I have provided, we intend that the following also be included for each stage boundary: 1) one or two photographs (from distance and close up) of the boundary level and interval in the stratotype section, 2) a locality map, 3) a stratigraphic column with a range chart, and 4) illustration(s) of key taxon(a) used to define or recognize the boundary. Given the number of stages to be included (~90) and realistic space limitations, each chapter needs to be succinct while including all pertinent information. We are considering publishing the book as three volumes (Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic) and possibly publishing it electronically so that it can be supplemented with GSSPs that are defined after publication. This book is intended to compliment GTS 2004, the very impressive time scale book by Felix, Jim and their many co-authors. Jim has been trying to put much of this information together on-line, but has been limited by what colleagues contribute, by the search needed to find all the GSSPs already described in a great variety of publications, by the great variation of material included in various, especially older, GSSP descriptions, and by the time necessary to bring it all together. We hope that all of you (or representatives, other officers, and former officers of your Subcommissions) can participate as co-authors and help us to produce a reference that is complete and most importantly has each chapter written by authorities on each particular system. We believe that such a book will become a standard reference on stratigraphy, explaining and elucidating the basis for the International Stratigraphic Chart and the International Geologic Time Scale. The intended audience is all geologists and students from upper level undergraduate and higher.The goal is to have the GSSP book ready for sale at the 33rd IGC in Oslo. Thus, it must be completed by late summer 2007. If everyone has a first draft at Leuven, we have a good chance for success.
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