Overview
- Presents the summary of quantitative construction of discrete paleontological timescales
- Offers numerous applications for paleontologists and geologists
- Includes models related to important mass extinctions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The object of this book is to explain how to create a synthesis of complex biostratigraphic data, and how to extract from such a synthesis a relative time scale based exclusively on the fossil content of sedimentary rocks. Such a time scale can be used to attribute relative ages to isolated fossil-bearing samples. The book is composed of 10 chapters together with several appendices. It is a totally revised version of “Biochronological Correlations” published in 1991 and includes various new chapters. The book offers a solution for the theoretical problem of how fossils can be used to make reliable quantitative stratigraphic correlations in sedimentary geology. It also describes the use of highly efficient software along with several examples. The authors compare their theoretical model with 2 other relevant studies: probabilistic stratigraphy and constrained optimization (CONOP).
Reviews
“The book by Guex et al. is simulating reading that can be recommended to big professionals in stratigraphy, especially those dreaming about new-age research. Some other geologists and graduate students with very advanced knowledge will also find this writing useful.” Dmitry A. Ruban, Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, 3-4, 2016)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Discrete Biochronological Time Scales
Authors: Jean Guex, Federico Galster, Øyvind Hammer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21326-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21325-5Published: 28 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37272-3Published: 01 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21326-2Published: 14 September 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 160
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quantitative Geology, Paleontology, Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences