Sequence stratigraphy is a relatively new branch of geology that attempts to link prehistoric sea-level changes to sedimentary deposits. The 'sequence' part of the name refers to cyclic sedimentary ...

The depositional environment of the Upper Ordovician Harding Sandstone of central Colorado has been debated since Charles Walcott first described its pteraspidomorph agnathans. Although most previous ...

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New integrative stratigraphy and timescales for 13 geological periods in China from the Ediacaran to the Quaternary have recently been published in a special issue of SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences. The ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Peter M. Sadler, a professor of geology at the University of California, Riverside, has received two prestigious honors: He has been awarded the 2012 ICS Medal of the International ...

PALAIOS content emphasizes the impact of life on Earth's history. Founded in 1986, it is a bimonthly journal which disseminates information to an international spectrum of geologists and biologists ...

A branch of geology and earth sciences, stratigraphy is a field of study that deals with the arrangement and succession of strata (layers) in the Earth. Additionally, it involves the origin, ...

NH copy Purchased from the Cullman Endowment. V. 1. The chronostratigraphic scale / F.M. Gradstein and J.G. Ogg -- Biochronology / F.M. Gradstein -- Cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology / L.A. Hinnov ...