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Introducing stratigraphy /
The extraordinary and beautiful scenery of the Northern Scottish Highlands has been created by a geological history lasting over 3 billion years. This is an illustrated geological history of those years, showing the rocks, visiting the places and introduces famous researchers and their theories that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Dunedin Academic Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Introducing Earth and environmental sciences.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: what is stratigraphy?
- The historical development of stratigraphy
- Time's Arrow and Time's Cycle: Uniformitarianism and Catastrophism in stratigraphy
- The quantification of the stratigraphic column: absolute time
- An integrated account of the stratigraphic column
- The definition of stratigraphic units and the Golden Spike
- The application of stratigraphy