Stratigraphy - Terminology And Practice -

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Résumé :
This book, written by 33 stratigraphic experts, presents variousprocesses available which will enable the location in time of allrock types : sedimentary, metamorphic, plutonic, and eruptive, whether they are in outcrop or at subsurface. The terminologyand the appropriate practices for each method are presentedin separate chapters and illustrated with concrete examples. The order of the chapters is modeled on the progression of thestratigraphic process, from the descriptive to the interpretative, fromthe methods of the geometric stratigraphy (lithostratigraphy andgenetic stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy)to the chronological stratigraphy (biostratigraphy), followed bythe chronometric stratigraphy (isotopic geochronology). Thefi nal two chapters are dedicated to chronostratigraphic units andcorrelations which combine the contributions of various methodsand to the presentation of the 2007 version of the GeologicalTime Scale. The defi nitions of stratigraphic terms can be found ina glossary at the end of the work.

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["STRATIGRAPHY :","FOUNDATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES : J","REY","DEFINITION OF STRATIGRAPHY","THE LANGUAGE OF STRATIGRAPHY","THE NEED FOR A COMMON LANGUAGE","STRATIGRAPHIC METHODS AND PROCESSES","LITHOLOGIC CYCLES (P COTILLON)","STRATIGRAPHICTRENDS","CONVENTIONS IN LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY","ORGANIZATION OFTHE BOOK","LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY from lithologic units to genetic stratigraphy","DEFINITION (L","COUREL & J","REY)","LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNITS","FROM SEQUENCES OF OBJECTS TO GENETIC SEQUENCES (J","REY)","SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY (G","RUSCIADELLI)","CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY","DEFINITION","TERMINOLOGY","PRACTICE","Classical biostratigraphy and biostratigraphic units","SPECIFIC STRATIGRAPHIES : P","LEBRET, R","CAPDEVILA, M","CAMPY, M","ISAMBERT, J.P LAUTRIDOU, J.J","MACAIRE, F","MENILLET, R","MEYER & A","DE GOER DE HERVE","STRATIGRAPHY OF THE METAMORPHIC AND PLUTONICTERRAINS (R","GAPDEVILA)","- TERMINOLOGY","The logical biostratigraphy or Unitary Associations method","\"Statistical biostratigraphy\"","MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY : B GALBRUN (COORD.), N.K","BELKAALOUL & L","LANCI","DEFINITION","TERMINOLOGY","BIOSTRATIGRAPHY FROM TAXON TO BIOZONES AND BIOZONAL SCHEMES","J THIERRY & S","GALEOTTI","DEFINITION AND AIM","Introduction","The biostratigraphic procedures","Index fossils, isochrony, dating and correlations","Evolution of concepts and methods","The biozone, the basic unit of biostratigraphy","Definition and identification of biozones","CONCEPTS, METHODS ANDTERMS IN BIOSTRATIGRAPHY","PRACTICE","The stops of the procedure of biostratigraphy","Results of the classical biostratigraphy","Use of the classic biozones","Possible diachronism of bioevents","Significance, precision and reliability of the classical biozones","Results of the logical biostratigraphy","Results of the statistical biostratigraphy","Relations between the classic biostratigraphic units, the units of the logical biostratigraphy and the units of the statistical biostratigraphy","Relations between biochronology, geochronology and chronostratigraphy","Biochronology and chronostratigraphy: biozone and stage boundary","Biochronology and geochronology: the geochronologic calibration of biostratigraphic scales","Recommendations in biostratigraphy","Definition and denomination of biostratigraphic units","Validation of biostratigraphic units","Use of biozones and biostratigraphic scales","ISOTOPE GEOCHRONOLOGY N CLAUER & A COCHERIE","Introduction","Description of methods","Technical aspects","Direct isotopic dating of sedimentary rocks","K-ar, rb-sr and sm-nd dating of precambrian sediments","Other methods of stratigraphic dating of sediments","Indirect isotopic dating of sedimentary rocks layered intrusions","Geochronometry of precambriantime (r","Capdevla)","Stratigraphy of surficial formations (p lebret (coord.), M","Campy, m","Isambert, j.-p lautridou, J -J Macaire, F Menillet & r","Meyer)","Quaternary stratigraphy (p lebret (coord.), M","Campy, m","Isambert, P lautridou j -j Macaire, f menillet & r","Meyer)","Stratigraphy 0f volcanic terrains (a","De göer de herve)","Presentation","Vocabulary","Volcanic and volcanogenic materials","Facies associations and lithostratigraphic units","Questionable vocabulary","Practice","Periodicity","Dating","CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNITS AND CORRELATIONS : J","REY (COORD.), L","COUREL, J","THIERRY, J.-E RAYNAUD & S","GALEOTTI","DEFINITION","PRACTICE","Duration of chronostratigraphic units","CONCLUSONS:THE STRATIGRAPHICTOOL CONVENTIONS","Main rules in the definition of chronostratigraphic units","Procedures for the ratification of chronostratigraphic units and their stratotypes","THE GEOLOGICALTIME SCALE FM","GRADSTEIN JAMES OGG & GABI OGG","INTRODUCTION","BOUNDARY STRATOTYPES","Definition","Klonk","Progress with gssp's","Reconcile proterozoic rock record with abstracttime","Units of time","Building the geologicaltime scale","Sedimentary cycles","Decay of atoms","Interpolation and statistics","The geologicaltime scale","Gts 2004","Gts 2010","-Time scale creator","GLOSSARY","REFERENCES"]