Time Scale

Encyclopedia of Geology

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 503-520

  Gradstein, F M ^a   Ogg, J G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; ERROR STATISTICS; ORBITS; TUNING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ABSOLUTE AGES; CYCLIC SEQUENCES; EARTH ORBITS; GEOLOGICAL TIME; GEOLOGICAL TIMESCALES; HIGH RESOLUTION; ROCK RECORDS; SCALINGS; STABLE ISOTOPES; TIME-SCALES;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

EID: 85069291767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-12-369396-9/00070-8     Document Type: Chapter

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