The Concise Geologic Time Scale
Felix M Gradstein author James G Ogg author Gabi Ogg author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:4th Sep '08
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A concise summary of Earth's history and the International Geologic Time Scale - containing a handy, detachable laminated time scale chart.
This handbook provides a concise summary of Earth's history over the past 4.5 billion years including time scale charts that present the most up-to-date, international standard and a handy, detachable laminated card. It is an essential reference for all geoscientists, including researchers, students, and petroleum and mining professionals.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.
'… 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 £20, 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.' Paläontologie allgem
ISBN: 9780521898492
Dimensions: 253mm x 193mm x 14mm
Weight: 680g
184 pages