Stratigraphy & timescales. Volume 1 / Стратиграфия и шкала времени. Том 1

The academic and industrial need for precise age constraints has made stratigraphy a fundamental and rapidly developing earth scientific discipline. Ranging from evolutionary biology, paleontology via climatology to large scale basin analysis, it is stratigraphy that is providing the time frame for the analysis of any dynamic process. Aside from the historically well-established methods, such as lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy, relatively young and novel concepts have started and continue to make their impact on our understanding and the constant refinement of stratigraphy. Isotope stratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology are only a few to be mentioned. The future in stratigraphy will see the integration of these disciplines into a unified universal stratigraphic framework, which will provide precise and high-resolution stratigraphic information enabling the quantification of complex interacting geological processes as well as regional and global correlations.
The new book series Stratigraphy and Timescales aims to form an essential platform for the communication of latest developments and progress within all fields of stratigraphy. It will foster and encourage the research into stratigraphy and present in chapters the latest state-of-the-art reviews and revisions of stratigraphic successions, new research results based upon established methods, and also introduce ground-breaking novel stratigraphic concepts for academia and industry, which still may even be in an experimental phase. <...>