Contributors ................................................... ix
Editors' Biographies ......................................... xiii
Preface ........................................................ xv
Abbreviations and acronyms ................................... xvii
1 Introduction ................................................. 1
F.M. Gradstein
2 The Chronostratigraphic Scale ............................... 31
F.M. Gradstein and J.G. Ogg
3 Biochronology ............................................... 43
F.M. Gradstein
4 Cyclostratigraphy and Astrochronology ....................... 63
L.A. Hinnov and F.J. Hilgen
5 Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale ............................. 85
J.C. Ogg
6 Radiogenic Isotope Geochronology ........................... 115
M.D. Schmitz
7 Strontium Isotope Stratigraphy ............................. 127
J.M. McArthur, R.J. Howarth and G.A. Shields
8 Osmium Isotope Stratigraphy ................................ 145
B. Peucker-Ehrenbrink and G. Ravizza
9 Sulfur Isotope Stratigraphy ................................ 167
A. Paytan and E.T. Gray
10 Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy ................................ 181
E.L. Grossman
11 Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy ................................ 207
M.R. Saltzman and E. Thomas
12 A Brief History of Plants on Earth ......................... 233
S.R. Gradstein and H. Kerp
13 Sequence Stratigraphy and Sea-Level Change ................. 239
M.D. Simmons
14 Statistical Procedures ..................................... 269
F.P. Agterberg, O. Hammer and F.M. Gradstein
15 The Planetary Time Scale ................................... 275
K.L. Tanaka and W.K. Hartmann
16 A Chronostratigraphic Division of the Precambrian .......... 299
M.J. Van Kranendonk and Contributors
17 The Cryogenian Period ...................................... 393
G.A. Shields-Zhou, A.C. Hill and B.A. Macgabhann
18 The Ediacaran Period ....................................... 413
G.M. Narbonne, S. Xiao and G.A. Shields
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