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Earth's pre-Pleistocene glacial record

edited and collated by M.J. Hambrey and W.B. Harland ; associate editors, N.M. Chumakov ... [et al.]

(Cambridge earth science series)

Cambridge University Press, 1981

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At head of title: International Geological Correlation Programme. Project 38: Pre-Pleistocene Tillites

Includes bibliographies and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The papers within these volumes were compiled between late 1978 and early 1980, from data on tillites and tillite-like rocks. The research was conducted for the Pre-Pleistocene Tillite Project of the International Geological Correlation Programme, and was first published in volume form in 1981. In this substantial work, M. J. Hambrey and W. B. Harland have assembled essays by leaders in the field of pre-Pleistocene glacial research. The work's various chapters review in depth the glacial records of Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and North and South America. The second volume concludes with a fascinating editorial overview of the pre-Pleistocene glacial record of the Earth as a whole. The reader is also presented with a collection of readily accessible statistics, maps and charts. This set will be of particular use to scholars of sedimentology, paleoclimatic patterns, climate change and ice ages, and the time-correlation of rocks.

Table of Contents

  • Part I. Introduction: 1. Stratigraphic time scale
  • 2. Criteria for the identification of glacigenic deposits
  • 3. Terminology
  • 4. Glossary
  • Part II. Invited Papers: 5. Africa
  • 6. Antarctica
  • 7. Asia
  • 8. Europe
  • 9. North America
  • 10. South America
  • Part III. Summary and Abstracted Data: 11. Summary of Earth's pre-Pleistocene glacial record
  • 12. Summary of radiometric data
  • 13. Abstract of principal palaeomagnetic data
  • Part IV. Indices.

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  • NCID
    BA07732306
  • ISBN
    • 0521228603
  • LCCN
    80041613
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]
  • Pages/Volumes
    xv, 1004 p.
  • Size
    31 cm
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