Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations and acronyms
- Part I INTRODUCTION
- Part II CONCEPTS AND METHODS
- PART III GEOLOGIC PERIODS
- 9 The Precambrian: the Archean and Proterozoic Eons
- 10 Toward a “natural” Precambrian time scale
- 11 The Cambrian Period
- 12 The Ordovician Period
- 13 The Silurian Period
- 14 The Devonian Period
- 15 The Carboniferous Period
- 16 The Permian Period
- 17 The Triassic Period
- 18 The Jurassic Period
- 19 The Cretaceous Period
- 20 The Paleogene Period
- 21 The Neogene Period
- 22 The Pleistocene and Holocene Epochs
- Part IV SUMMARY
- Appendix 1 Recommended color coding of stages
- Appendix 2 Orbital tuning calibrations and conversions for the Neogene Period
- Appendix 3 Geomathematics
- Bibliography
- Stratigraphic Index
- General Index
11 - The Cambrian Period
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations and acronyms
- Part I INTRODUCTION
- Part II CONCEPTS AND METHODS
- PART III GEOLOGIC PERIODS
- 9 The Precambrian: the Archean and Proterozoic Eons
- 10 Toward a “natural” Precambrian time scale
- 11 The Cambrian Period
- 12 The Ordovician Period
- 13 The Silurian Period
- 14 The Devonian Period
- 15 The Carboniferous Period
- 16 The Permian Period
- 17 The Triassic Period
- 18 The Jurassic Period
- 19 The Cretaceous Period
- 20 The Paleogene Period
- 21 The Neogene Period
- 22 The Pleistocene and Holocene Epochs
- Part IV SUMMARY
- Appendix 1 Recommended color coding of stages
- Appendix 2 Orbital tuning calibrations and conversions for the Neogene Period
- Appendix 3 Geomathematics
- Bibliography
- Stratigraphic Index
- General Index
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- A Geologic Time Scale 2004 , pp. 147 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005
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