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Integrated Quaternary Stratigraphy
- 1st Edition, Volume 7 - November 16, 2022
- Editor: Michael Montenari
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 9 1 3 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 9 1 4 - 5
Stratigraphy Timescales, Volume Seven in the Advances in Sequence Stratigraphy series, covers research in stratigraphic disciplines, including the most recent developments… Read more
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Request a sales quoteStratigraphy Timescales, Volume Seven in the Advances in Sequence Stratigraphy series, covers research in stratigraphic disciplines, including the most recent developments in the geosciences. This fully commissioned review publication aims to foster and convey progress in stratigraphy with its inclusion of a variety of topics surrounding the latest research and findings in sequence stratigraphy.
- Contains contributions from leading authorities in the field
- Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field
- Aims to foster and convey progress in stratigraphy, including geochronology, magnetostratigraphy, lithostratigraphy, event-stratigraphy, and more
Academic and applied geoscientists in universities, industry and government; economic geologists, instructors and earth scientists
- Cover
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: An outline of geochemical proxies used on marine sediments deposited during the Quaternary Period
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Approach
- 3: Major and trace elemental proxies
- 4: Mathematical and statistical analysis of climate variables
- 5: Summary and remarks
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Two: Stratigraphy in the Greenland/Iceland/Norwegian (GIN) seas: A multiproxy approach on Pleistocene sediments
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Materials, methods and proxy significance
- 3: Toward a coherent stratigraphy
- 4: Discussion
- 5: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter Three: Quaternary Palynostratigraphy of Germany with special emphasis on the Late Pleistocene
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Brief research history
- 3: Plio-Pleistocene boundary
- 4: Early Pleistocene
- 5: Middle Pleistocene
- 6: Late Pleistocene
- 7: Holocene
- 8: Conclusions and outlook
- References
- Chapter Four: The latest European record of Chasmaporthetes lunensis lunensis (Del Campana, 1914) from Schernfeld (Bavaria, Germany) in terms of the changes in the European carnivore paleoguilds
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Material and methods
- 3: Locality
- 4: Results
- 5: Discussion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Five: The Quaternary vertebrate fauna of cave deposits of the Podillia-Bukovynian Karst-Speleological Area (Western Ukraine)
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Literature review
- 3: Geological and Karstological settings
- 4: Results (cave sites description)
- 5: Discussion and conclusions
- References
- Chapter Six: An overview of the geology of paleoanthropological and archaeological sites of South Africa
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Sites in the Cradle of Humankind
- 3: Sites outside the Cradle of Humankind
- 4: Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter Seven: New lithostratigraphic nomenclature of Neogene rock units in As-Sahabi area, Sirt Basin, northeast Libya
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Description of lithostratigraphic units of As-Sahabi area
- 3: Previous stratigraphic nomenclature
- 4: Methodology
- 5: Revisions of stratigraphic nomenclature for As-Sahabi area of Libya
- 6: Discussion
- 7: Conclusions
- References
- No. of pages: 324
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 7
- Published: November 16, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323989138
- eBook ISBN: 9780323989145
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Michael Montenari
Dr. Michael Montenari works at the Earth Sciences and Geography Department, Keele University.
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Earth Sciences and Geography Department, Keele University, Newcastle, UKRead Integrated Quaternary Stratigraphy on ScienceDirect