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The Geologic Time Scale 2012, winner of a 2012 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Best Multi-volume Reference in Science from the Association of American Publishers, is the framework for deciphering the history of our planet Earth. 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 2012 geologic time scale is an enhanced, improved and expanded version of the GTS2004, including chapters on planetary scales, the Cryogenian-Ediacaran periods/systems, a prehistory scale of human development, a survey of sequence stratigraphy, and an extensive compilation of stable-isotope chemostratigraphy. 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 wall chart of the complete time scale for use as a handy reference in the office, laboratory or field.
The Geologic Time Scale 2012, winner of a 2012 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Best Multi-volume Reference in Science from the Association of American Publishers, is the framework for deciphering the history of our planet Earth. 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 2012 geologic time scale is an enhanced, improved and expanded version of the GTS2004, including chapters on planetary scales, the Cryogenian-Ediacaran periods/systems, a prehistory scale of human development, a survey of sequence stratigraphy, and an extensive compilation of stable-isotope chemostratigraphy. 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 wall chart of the complete time scale for use as a handy reference in the office, laboratory or field.
Serves as the standard international framework for deciphering the history of our planet, providing a complete stratigraphy of all periods and stages with regional applications
Volume 1
PART I INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction, F. M. Gradstein
2. Chronostratigraphy: linking time and rock, F. M. Gradstein and
j. G. Ogg
PART II CONCEPTS AND METHODS
3. Biochronology, F.M.Gradstein
4. Cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology, L. A.hinnov and
f.j.hilgen
5. The geomagnetic polarity time scale, J. G. Ogg
6. Radiogenic isotopes geochronology, M.Schmitz And M.
Villeneuve
7. Strontium isotope stratigraphy, J. M. Mcarthur, R. J. Howarth
and G.Shields
8. Osmium isotope stratigraphy, B. Peucker-Ehrenbrink and G.
Ravizza
9. Sulfur isotope stratigraphy, A. Paytan
10. Oxygen isotope stratigraphy, E. Grossman
11. Carbon isotope stratigraphy, M. Saltzman and E. Thomas
12. A Brief History of Plants on Earth S.R. Gradstein and H.
Kerp
13. Sequence chronostratigraphy, M. Simmons
14. Statistical procedures, F. P. Agterberg, O. Hammer and F.M.
Gradstein
PART III
15. The Planetary time scale, K.TANAKA AND B.HARTMANN
16. The Precambrian: the Archean and Proterozoic Eons, M.van
Kranendonk and co-authors
17. The Cryogenian Period, G. A. Shields, A.C. Hill and B. A.
MacGabhann
18. The Ediacaran Period, G. Narbonne, S. Xiao and G.A. Shields
Bibliography
Volume 2
PART IV GEOLOGIC PERIODS PHANEROZOIC
19. The Cambrian Period, S. Peng, L. Babcock and R. A. Cooper
20. The Ordovician Period, R. A. Cooper and P. M. Sadler
21. The Silurian Period, M. J. Melchin, R. A. Cooper and P. M.
Sadler
22. The Devonian Period, T. Becker, F. M. Gradstein and O.
Hammer
23. The Carboniferous Period, V. Davydov, D. Korn and M.
Schmitz
24. The Permian Period, CH. Henderson, V. Davydov and B.
Wardlaw
25. The Triassic Period, J. G. Ogg
26. The Jurassic Period, J. G. Ogg
27. The Cretaceous Period, J. G. Ogg and L. Hinnov
28. The Paleogene Period, N. Vandenberghe, R. Speijer and F.J.
Hilgen
29. The Neogene Period, F.J. Hilgen, L. Lourens, and J. van Dam
30. The Quaternary Period, B. Pillans and P. Gibbard
31. The Prehistoric Human Time Scale, J.A. Catt and M.A. Maslin
32. The Anthropocene, J.Z Alasiewicz, P. Crutzen and W. Steffen
Appendix 1- Recommended color coding of stages
Appendix 2 - Radiometric ages used in GTS2012, M.D. Schmitz
Appendix 3 - Biochronology of Paleogene and Neogene Microfossils,
E. Anthonissen, J.G. Ogg.
Felix M. Gradstein has a distinguished career of more than 35 years in the fields of stratigraphy, micropalaeontology and geochronology. He is renowned for coordinating the development of the international geological time scale: over the last 25 years Gradstein et al.'s Time Scales, most recently the 2012 "Geologic Time Scale" (GTS2012), have become a ubiquitous "gold standard" for all Earth Scientists. Gradstein has authored over 140 scientific publications in the fields of geological time scales, quantitative stratigraphic methods, stratigraphy and sedimentology of petroleum basins, plate tectonics, palaeoceanography, and deep-water micropalaeontology. He has a career that spans the divides between industry, government and academia, with periods working for Esso and Saga Petroleum, the Geological Survey of Canada, and Dalhousie University. He is currently Professor in the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo. Gradstein recently won the 2012 PROSE Honorable Mention Award for a multi-volume scientific reference. James Ogg has over 35 years' experience in the fields of Marine Stratigraphy, Paleoceanography, Paleomagnetism, Sedimentology. Currently a professor at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, Ogg is renowned for coordinating the development of the international geological time scale: over the last 25 years Gradstein et al.'s Time Scales, most recently the 2012 "Geologic Time Scale" (GTS2012), have become a ubiquitous "gold standard" for all Earth Scientists. Ogg has published over 100 articles and coordinated 2 books as first or co- author on aspects of stratigraphy in refereed journals since 1986, and has contributed to over 70 chapters in Deep Sea Drilling Project and Ocean Drilling Program volumes. He has also won numerous awards, including the Geological Society of America: Mary B. Ansari Best Reference Work Award for The Geologic Time Scale 2004 and most recently the 2012 PROSE Honorable Mention Award for a multi-volume scientific reference.
".one of the main distinctions of the new version is the more detailed subdivision of the preceding Precambrian interval. As before, the earlier chapters of the book summarize the approaches used; they review the main methods of obtaining chronometric dates and calibrating them with geomagnetic polarity and orbital fluctuations, as well as the use of various stable isotopes in chronological and paleoenvironmental analysis.Required for specialist libraries and a valuable acquisition for other libraries lacking the 2004 edition."--CHOICE April 2013
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