The scale-dependence of strata-time relations: Implications for stratigraphic classification

Stratigraphy

Volumn 4, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 139-144

  Zalasiewicz, Jan ^a   Smith, Alan ^b   Hounslow, Mark ^c   Williams, Mark ^a   Gale, Andrew ^d,e   Powell, John ^f   Waters, Colin ^f   Barry, Tiffany L ^g   Bown, Paul R ^h   Brenchley, Patrick ⁱ   Cantrill, David ^j   Gibbard, Philip ^b   Gregory, F John ^e,k   Knox, Robert ^f   Marshall, John ^l   Oates, Michael ^m   Rawson, Peter ^h,n   Stone, Philip ^f   Trewin, Nigel ^o  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^g OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^j ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS VICTORIA   (Australia)

^k PetroStrat Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^m SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^o KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; PHANEROZOIC; SUCCESSION;

EID: 34548757468     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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