Time-scale construction and periodizing in big history: From the Eocene-Oligocene boundary to all of the past

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 452, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-15

  Alvarez, Walter ^a,b   Claeys, Philippe ^c   Montanari, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Osservatorio Geologico di Coldigioco   (Italy)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Big history; Earth history; Eocene; Oligocene; Periodization; Time scale

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COSMOLOGY; EARTH (PLANET); GEOLOGY; HISTORY;

CELLULAR METABOLISM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; EOCENE; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; OLIGOCENE; PERIODIZATION; TIME-SCALES;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CORRELATION; DATING METHOD; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; GEOLOGICAL TIME; TIMESCALE;

LEPTOSPIRA;

EID: 74949127877     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2452(01)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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