The Pleistocene Boundary and the Beginning of the Quaternary

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Edited by John A. Van Couvering, American Museum of Natural History, New York

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: November 2009
Print publication year:: 1996
Online ISBN:: 9780511585760
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511585760

Subjects:: Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Life History, Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geodynamics, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
Series:: World and Regional Geology (9)

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The Pleistocene Boundary and the Beginning of the Quaternary presents the results of a forty-year international program to establish a precise definition for the most important boundary in geologic time – the beginning of the modern age of glacial climates. This book, the final report of International Geological Correlation Project 41, describes the selection of a fixed reference point in the sequence of deep-water marine strata exposed at Vrica, Italy. This point, dated to 1.81 million years before the present, coincides with the onset of the first of four major glacial phases. The opening chapters of the book document the geology and palaeontology of the agreed physical reference point, and the successful proposal of this point as the boundary-stratotype of the Pleistocene Epoch. The book then describes the correlation of the boundary throughout the ocean basins and continents of the world in terms of detailed stratigraphic criteria such as planktonic biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy and radiometric age determinations.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of contributors
pp vii-x

Preface: the new Pleistocene
pp xi-xviii

Foreword
pp xix-xxii

Part I - Definition of the base of the Quaternary
pp 1-2

1 - International Geological Correlation Program, Project 41: “Neogene/Quaternary Boundary”
pp 3-12

Part II - Characterization of the Pleistocene boundary-stratotype
pp 13-14

2 - The Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary-stratotype at Vrica, Italy
pp 15-45

3 - The magnetostratigraphy of the Vrica section, Italy, and its correlation with the Plio–Pleistocene of the Boso Peninsula, Japan
pp 46-56

4 - Comparison of the laminated units at Vrica and deep-sea sapropels from the eastern Mediterranean
pp 57-62

5 - Calcareous nannofossil biochronology and the Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary
pp 63-78

6 - Diatom microfossils from the Vrica section
pp 79-84

Part III - The paleontological context of the Pleistocene boundary
pp 85-86

7 - The Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary in deep-sea sediments
pp 87-103

8 - Late Cenozoic changes of flora in extra-tropical Eurasia in the light of paleomagnetic stratigraphy
pp 104-113

9 - Plio–Pleistocene mammal faunas: an overview
pp 114-128

10 - Human evolution in the Plio–Pleistocene interval
pp 129-138

Part IV - The Pleistocene boundary in regional sequences
pp 139-140

11 - The Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary in Italy
pp 141-155

12 - Stratigraphy of the Plio–Pleistocene sequence of the Mediterranean coastal belt of Israel and its implications for the evolution of the Nile Cone
pp 156-168

13 - The Pliocene–Pleistocene transition in the Iberian Peninsula
pp 169-177

14 - Biostratigraphy and calibrated climatic chronology of the Upper Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene of France
pp 178-182

15 - The Plio–Pleistocene of England and Iceland
pp 183-184

16 - The Neogene–Ouaternary boundary in The Netherlands
pp 185-190

17 - The Tertiary–Quaternary boundary in western Germany
pp 191-200

18 - The Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary in eastern Germany
pp 201-205

19 - The Plio–Pleistocene of Hungary
pp 206-215

20 - The Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary in Romania
pp 216-220

21 - The Pliocene and Pleistocene of the European part of the Commonwealth of Independent States
pp 221-226

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