Earth's Pre-Pleistocene Glacial Record

The papers within these volumes were compiled between late 1978 and early 1980, from data on tillites and tillite-like rocks.

M. J. Hambrey (Edited by), W. B. Harland (Edited by)

9780521172301, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 April 2011

1022 pages
29.7 x 21 x 5.1 cm, 2.39 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Petrology [RBGG]