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Miocene stratigraphy : an integrated approach /

Integrated stratigraphy is essential for & lozf; detailed paleoecologic studies of critical intervals in Earth history & lozf; the calibration of the time scale for global use & lozf; the establishment of Global Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs) for the definition of chronostratigra...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Montanari, Alessandro, Odin, Gilles S., Coccioni, R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 1997.
Colección:Developments in palaeontology and stratigraphy ; 15.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Foreword; Preface; List of Contributors; Contents; Part A: The historical stratotypes; Chronostratigraphic units: historical stratotypes and global stratotypes; Chapter A1. The Aquitanian historical stratotype; Chapter A2. The Burdigalian historical stratotype; Chapter A3. The Burdigalian historical stratotype in the Rhodanian area; Chapter A4. Sr isotope record in the area of the Lower Miocene historical stratotypes of the Aquitaine basin (France); Chapter A5. Langhian, Serravallian, and Tortonian historical stratotypes.
  • Chapter A6. Calcareous plankton biostratigraphy of the Langhian historical stratotypeChapter A7. Planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Tortonian historical stratotype, Rio Mazzapiedi-Castellania Section, northwestern Italy; Chapter A8. The Messinian historical stratotype and the Tortonian/Messinian boundary; Chapter A9. Proposal for the global stratotype section and point (GSSP) for the base of the Neogene (the Palaeogene/Neogene Boundary); Chapter A10. The Miocene/Pliocene boundary: present and future; Part B: Geology of the two main study areas.
  • Chapter B1. Miocene palaeogeography of the Tethys Ocean potential global correlations in the Mediterranean; Chapter B2. Tectonic setting of the Miocene northern Apennines: the problem of contemporaneous compression and extension; Chapter B3. Geology, tectonics, and integrated stratigraphy potential of Japan; Part C: Studies relevant to the Lower Miocene subseries; Introduction: the Lower Miocene; Chapter C1. Integrated stratigraphy near the Oligocene/Miocene boundary in the Piedmont basin (Italy): biostratigraphy and geochronology.
  • Chapter C2. Integrated stratigraphy (biostratigraphy and geochronology) of the Early Miocene sequence from the Emilian Apennines (Italy)Chapter C3. Integrated stratigraphy of the Chattian to mid-Burdigalian pelagic sequence of the Contessa valley (Gubbio, Italy); Chapter C4. Potential integrated stratigraphy of the Aquitanian to upper Burdigalian section at Santa Croce di Arcevia (NE Apennines, Italy); Chapter C5. Biostratigraphy and geochronology of a Miocene continental volcaniclastic layer from the Ebro basin, Spain; Part D: Studies relevant to the Middle Miocene subseries.
  • Introduction: the Middle MioceneChapter D1. Integrated stratigraphy of the upper Burdigalian-lower Langhian section at Moria (Marche region, Italy); Chapter D2. Potential integrated stratigraphy in the Langhian l'Annunziata section near Apiro (Marche region, Italy); Chapter D3. Biostratigraphy and geochronology of an early Serravallian volcaniclastic layer from Sicily; Chapter D4. Potential integrated Middle Miocene stratigraphy in southeastern Spain; Chapter D5. The potential for integrated stratigraphic studies of Middle Miocene sequences in central Japan.