{"product_id":"the-pleistocene-boundary-and-the-beginning-of-the-quaternary-paperback-9780521617024","title":"The Pleistocene Boundary and the Beginning of the Quaternary (Paperback) 9780521617024","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Pleistocene Boundary and the Beginning of the Quaternary\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book documents the agreed geological reference point for the Pleistocene boundary, and its worldwide correlation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn A. Van Couvering (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521617024, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 16 December 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 128 b\/w illus.  18 tables\u003cbr\u003e27.9 x 20.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.72 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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. This book, the final report of International Geological Correlation 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. The opening chapters of the book document the geology and palaeontology of the agreed physical reference point, and the successful proposal of this point as the boundary-stratotype of the Pleistocene Epoch. The book then describes the correlation of the boundary throughout the ocean basins and continents of the world in terms of detailed stratigraphic criteria such as planktonic biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy and radiometric age determinations.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of contributors\u003cbr\u003e Preface: the new Pleistocene\u003cbr\u003e Foreword\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Definition of the Base of the Quaternary: 1. International Geological Correlation Program, Project 41: “Neogene\/Quaternary Boundary” Ksenia V. Nikiforova and Mikhail N. Alekseev\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Characterization of the Pleistocene Boundary-Stratotype: 2. The Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary-stratotype at Vrica, Italy Giancarlo Pasini and Maria Luisa Colalongo\u003cbr\u003e 3. The magnetostratigraphy of the Vrica section, Italy, and its correlation with the Plio-Pleistocene of the Boso Peninsula, Japan Hisao Nakagawa, Nobuaki Niitsuma, Toshiaki Takayama, Yasumochi Matoba, Motoyoshi Oda, Shigemoto Tokunaga, Hiroshi Kitazato, Toyosaburo Sakai and Itaru Koizumi\u003cbr\u003e 4. Comparison of the laminated units at Vrica and deep-sea sapropels from the  Eastern Mediterranean Isabella Raffi and Robert Thunell\u003cbr\u003e 5. Calcareous nannofossil biochronology and the Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary Domenico Rio, Isabella Raffi and Jan Backman\u003cbr\u003e 6. Diatom microfossils from the Vrica section Andrew J. M. Palmer\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Paleontological Context of the Pleistocene Boundary: 7. The Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary in deep sea sediments William A. Berggren and Lloyd H. Burckle, Jr.\u003cbr\u003e 8. Late Cenozoic changes of flora in extra-tropical Eurasia in the light of paleomagnetic stratigraphy Vladimir P. Grichuk\u003cbr\u003e 9. Pliocene–Pleistocene mammal faunas: an overview Emiliano Aguirre, Eleanora A. Vangengeim, Jorge Morales, Marina V. Sotnikova and Vladimir S. Zazhigin\u003cbr\u003e 10. Human evolution in the Plio–Pleistocene interval Emiliano Aguirre\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Pleistocene Boundary in Regional Sequences: 11. The Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary in Italy Augusto Azzaroli, Maria Luisa Colalongo, Hisao Nakagawa, Giancarlo Pasini, Domenico Rio, Giuliano Ruggieri, Samuele Sartoni and Rodolfo Sprovieri\u003cbr\u003e 12. Stratigraphy of the Plio-Pleistocene sequence of the Mediterranean coastal belt of Israel and its implications for the evolution of the Nile Cone Gedaliahu Gvirtzman, Guido M. Martinotti and Shimon Moshkovitz\u003cbr\u003e 13. Pliocene–Pleistocene transition in the Iberian peninsula Emiliano Aguirre\u003cbr\u003e 14. Biostratigraphy and calibrated climatic chronology of the upper Pliocene and lower Pleistocene of France Jean Chaline\u003cbr\u003e 15. Pliocene–Pleistocene of England Richard W. Hey\u003cbr\u003e 16. Quaternary boundary in the Netherlands Waldo H. Zagwijn\u003cbr\u003e 17. Quaternary boundary in western Germany Günther Von Der Brelie, Karl Brunnacker, Winfried Hinsch and Heinz Tobien\u003cbr\u003e 18. The Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary in eastern Germany Hans-Dietrich Kahlke, Lothar Eissmann and Friedrich Wiegank\u003cbr\u003e 19. The Pliocene-Pleistocene of Hungary Andrew A. Rónai\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary in Romania Constantin Ghenea\u003cbr\u003e 21. The Pliocene and Pleistocene of the European part of the Commonwealth of Independent States Ksenia V. Nikiforova\u003cbr\u003e 22. The N\/Q boundary in Asian Russia and Tadjikistan Mikhail N. Alekseev\u003cbr\u003e 23. The Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary in the Indian subcontinent M. V. A. Sastry\u003cbr\u003e 24. The Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary in Japan: the Osaka Group, Kinki district Minoru Itihara, Shusaku Yoshikawa and Tadao Kamei\u003cbr\u003e 25. The Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary in Japan: stratigraphy in the Boso Peninsula, central Japan Hisao Nakagawa, Nobuaki Niitsuma, Takashi Mitsunashi, Motoyoshi Oda, Toshiaki Takayama and Toyosaburo Sakai\u003cbr\u003e 26. The base of the Quaternary in China Zhang Shouxin\u003cbr\u003e 27. Pliocene–Pleistocene deposits and the Quaternary boundary in sub-Saharan Africa H. Basil S. Cooke\u003cbr\u003e 28. Pliocene–Pleistocene reference sections in Indonesia François Sémah\u003cbr\u003e 29. The Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary in New Zealand Anthony R. Edwards\u003cbr\u003e 30. The Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary in continental sequences of North America Everett H. 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