Stratigraphic Guide
Home | Preface | Intro | Principles | Definitions | Stratotypes | Litho | Unconformity | Bio | Magneto | Chrono | RelationshipsInternational Stratigraphic Guide - An abridged version
Edited by Michael A. Murphy1 and Amos Salvador (deceased)2
revised by Werner E. Piller3 and Marie-Pierre Aubry4
International Subcommission on Stratigraphic Classification of IUGS
International Commission on Stratigraphy
1Geology Department, Univ.of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.
2Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA;
3Institute of Earth Sciences, NAWI Graz Geocenter, University of Graz, Heinrichstrasse 26, 8010 Graz, Austria
4Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08873, USA
Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Principles
- Definitions
- Stratotypes
- Lithostratigraphic Units
- Unconformity Bounded Units
- Biostratigraphic Units
- Magnetostratigraphic Units
- Chronostratigraphic Units
- Relationships
About the Guide
Effective communication in science requires accurate and precise internationally acceptable terminology and procedures. The Abridged Version of the International Stratigraphic Guide, like the Guide itself, was developed to promote international agreement on principles of stratigraphic classification and to develop an internationally acceptable stratigraphic terminology and rules of procedure in the interest of improved accuracy and precision in international communication, coordination, and understanding. It is not a revision of the Guide but a short version that omits history, explanatory text, and exemplification, the glossaries and the bibliography.
(A concise guide in the german language of the abridged Stratigraphic Guide is: Steininger, F.F. & Piller, W.E., 1999. Empfehlungen (Richtlinien) zur Handhabung der stratigraphischen Nomenklatur. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 209, 20 p.)