The Concise Geologic Time Scale

A concise summary of Earth's history and the International Geologic Time Scale - containing a handy, detachable laminated time scale chart.

James G. Ogg (Author), Gabi Ogg (Author), Felix M. Gradstein (Author)

9780521898492, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 4 September 2008

184 pages, 3 b/w illus. 14 tables
25.3 x 19.3 x 1.4 cm, 0.68 kg

' … the new book by Ogg et al. will become a true gift for everyone in the geosciences. The authors talentedly prepared an ultimate reference on the chronostratigraphical knowledge, which permits to feel as a growth of the present interest to the geologic time subdivision as the main achievements in this direction.' Paläontologie allgem

This concise handbook presents a summary of Earth's history over the past 4.5 billion years as well as a brief overview of contemporaneous events on the Moon, Mars and Venus. The authors have been at the forefront of chronostratigraphic research and initiatives to create an international geologic time scale for many years, and the charts in this book present the most up to date, international standard, as ratified by the International Commission on Stratigraphy and the International Union of Geological Sciences. This book is an essential reference for all geoscientists, including researchers, students, and petroleum and mining professionals. The presentation is non-technical and illustrated with numerous colour charts, maps and photographs. The book also includes a detachable laminated card of the complete time scale for use as a handy reference in the office, laboratory or field.

Introduction
Planetary time scale
Precambrian period
Cambrian period
Ordovician period
Silurian period
Devonian period
Carboniferous period
Permian period
Triassic period
Jurassic period
Cretaceous period
Paleogene period
Neogene period
Quaternary period
Appendix. Standard colors of the international divisions of geologic time
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Geochemistry [RBGK], Petrology [RBGG], Soil science, sedimentology [RBGB], Earth sciences [RB], Mineralogy & gems [PNV]