Dates and rates: Temporal resolution in the deep time stratigraphic record

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue , 2006, Pages 569-590

  Erwin, Douglas H ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronostratigraphy; Evolutionary rates; Geochronology; Geologic time

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ECOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; INTEGRATION; RADIOMETRY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEEP TIME STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD; EVOLUTIONARY RATES; GEOLOGIC TIME;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GEOLOGICAL TIME;

EID: 33744960674     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.34.031405.125141     Document Type: Article

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