DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.08.033
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84987934947
论文题名: Partitioning the Quaternary
作者: Gibbard P.L. ; Lewin J.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2016
卷: 151 起始页码: 127
结束页码: 139
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Chronostratigraphy
; Event
; Event stratigraphy
; Geochronology
; Time
Scopus关键词: Geochronology
; Intelligent control
; Chronostratigraphy
; Event
; Event stratigraphies
; International Commission
; Sequence stratigraphy
; Terrestrial sediments
; Time
; Traditional approaches
; Stratigraphy
; Anthropocene
; chronostratigraphy
; Earth science
; episodic event
; event stratigraphy
; geochronology
; historical record
; Holocene
; ice core
; marine sediment
; partitioning
; Pleistocene
; sequence stratigraphy
英文摘要: We review the historical purposes and procedures for stratigraphical division and naming within the Quaternary, and summarize the current requirements for formal partitioning through the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). A raft of new data and evidence has impacted traditional approaches: quasi-continuous records from ocean sediments and ice cores, new numerical dating techniques, and alternative macro-models, such as those provided through Sequence Stratigraphy and Earth-System Science. The practical usefulness of division remains, but there is now greater appreciation of complex Quaternary detail and the modelling of time continua, the latter also extending into the future. There are problems both of commission (what is done, but could be done better) and of omission (what gets left out) in partitioning the Quaternary. These include the challenge set by the use of unconformities as stage boundaries, how to deal with multiphase records in ocean and terrestrial sediments, what happened at the ‘Early-Mid- (Middle) Pleistocene Transition’, dealing with trends that cross phase boundaries, and the current controversial focus on how to subdivide the Holocene and formally define an ‘Anthropocene’. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59412
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作者单位: Cambridge Quaternary, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom; Department of Geography & Earth Sciences, University of Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Gibbard P.L.,Lewin J.. Partitioning the Quaternary[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2016-01-01,151