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Title

The Pleistocene boundary and the beginning of the Quaternary / edited by John A. Van Couvering ; associate editors, Emiliano Aguirre, Mikhail N. Alekseev, Giancarlo Pasini.

Publication

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

Van Couvering, John A.

Description

xxi, 296 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

The Pleistocene Boundary and the Beginning of the Quaternary presents the results of a forty-year international program to establish a precise definition for the most important boundary in geologic time - the beginning of the modern age of glacial climates, in which our landscape, our biological environment, and our own speceis were shaped together. This book, the final report of International Geological Correlation Program, Project 41, describes the selection of a fixed reference point in the sequence of deep-water marine strata exposed at Vrica, Italy. This point, dated to 1.81 million years before the present, coincides with the onset of the first of four major glacial phases and with the emergence of Homo erectus in Africa. The precise identification of the Pleistocene boundary has already led to its redefinition in major areas, such as eastern Europe, China, and India, where the boundary previously was recognized at various levels, according to local interpretations of evidence for "the beginning of glacial climates."

Series Statement

World and regional geology series ; 9

Uniform Title

World and regional geology ; 9.

Subject

• Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary
• Stratigraphic correlation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface: the new Pleistocene / John A. Van Couvering -- Foreword / Ksenia V. Nikiforova -- 1. International Geological Correlation Program, Project 41: "Negogene/Quaternary Boundary" / Ksenia V. Nikiforova and Mikhail N. Alekseev -- 2. The Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary-stratotype at Vrica, Italy / Giancarlo Pasini and Maria Luisa Colalongo -- 3. The magnetostratigraphy of the Vrica section, Italy, and its correlation with the Plio-Pleistocene of the Boso Peninsula, Japan / Hisao Nakagawa, Nobuaki Niitsuma and Toshiaki Takayama [and others] -- 4. Comparison of the laminated units at Vrica and deep-sea sapropels from the eastern Mediterranean / Isabella Raffi and Robert Thunell.

ISBN

0521341159 (hc)

LCCN

^^^95026529^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library