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- catalog abstract "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."".
- catalog contributor b10388518.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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."".
- catalog extent "xxi, 296 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521341159 (hc)".
- catalog isPartOf "World and regional geology ; 9.".
- catalog isPartOf "World and regional geology series ; 9".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "551.7/92 20".
- catalog subject "Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary.".
- catalog subject "QE695.5 .P57 1997".
- catalog subject "Stratigraphic correlation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog type "text".