Magnetic Stratigraphy / Edition 1

by Meil D. Opdyke, James E.T. Channell

Overview

Magnetic Stratigraphy is the most comprehensive book written in the English language on the subject of magnetic polarity stratigraphy and time scales. This volume presents the entirety of the known geomagneticrecord, which now extends back about 300 million years. The book includes the results of current research on sea floor spreading, magnetic stratigraphy of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, and postulations on the Paleozoic. Also included are both historicalbackground and applications of magnetostratigraphy. Individual chapters on correlation are presented, using changes in magnetic properties and secular variation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780125274708
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	10/21/1996
Series:	International Geophysics , #64
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Neil D. Opdyke was the winner of the Fleming Medal of the American Geophysical Union in 1996, the george P. Woollard Award of the Geological Society of America in 1987, and the Stillwell Award of the Geological Society of Australia in 1982. He earned his Ph.D. at Durham University, England, in 1958, and went on to get his D.Sc. at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1982. Opdyke is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Florida, a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

Table of Contents

(Chapter Headings): Introduction and a Little History. The Earth's Magnetic Field. The Magnetization Process. Laboratory Techniques. Magnetic Properties of Marine Sediments. Fundamentals of Reversal Magnetostratigraphy. The Plio-Pleistocene Reversal Record. Seafloor Spreading Anomalies and the Magnetic Polarity Timescale. The Cenozoic Marine Record. Magnetic Stratigraphy of Cenozoic Terrestrial Deposits. Mesozoic Magnetostratigraphy in Marine Sediments. Magnetic Stratigraphy ofthe Lower Mesozoic and Paleozoic. Secular Variation Magnetostratigraphy in Lake Sediments. Rock Magnetic Stratigraphy. Subject Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...this book is a very lucid, up-to-date account of the subject and is very clearly written and very well illustrated. It is also very well referenced..." —D. H. Tarling, University of Plymouth, GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, January 1999

"...the authors present an excellent and very detailed review of the methods for coupling both the GPTS and magnetostratigraphic sequences with absolute ages. A virtue of this book is its wealth of sources, figures and tables; all indispensable in the case of such a complex matter. It should as well be in all palaeomagnetic and stratigraphic laboratories on the strength of its comprehensiveness and cross-relationships among different branches of Earth sciences." —Mark Lewandowski in PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS

"This book has much to offer. First, it serves as a succinct and practical introduction to those aspects of geomagnetism and paleomagnetism that are relevant to magnetostratigraphy. Second, it provides an up-to-date discussion of the polarity-reversal history derived from remote sensing of the magnetization of the oceanic crust....Third, the authors have produced a grand synthesis of existing magnetostratigraphic data....And finally, they step back and see what can be learned about the behavior of the geomagnetic field from the long record they have reconstructed....Magnetic Stratigraphy is handsome, very readable, and persuasive; most readers will wonder (as the authors do occasionally) why more boundaries in the geologic timescale are not tied directly to our planets geomagnetic pulse." —SCIENCE

"This book fills a certain gap in palaeomagnetic bibliography that was lacking of a serparate, comprehensive edition on the basis of magnetic polarity stratigraphy and its geological applications. A virtue of this book is its wealth of sources, figures and tables; all indispensable in the case of such a complex matter. The book may be recommeded to graduate students endeavoring to specialize in geomagnetism and/or palaeomagnetism." —PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, 1997

From the Publisher

This book is a very lucid up-to-date account of the subject and is very clearly written and very well illustrated." (D. H. Tarling, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Plymouth, U.K.)

D. H. Tarling

A guide for geographers interested in studying the stratigraphic record of polarity reversals in rocks and sediments, and integrating it with biological, chemical, and numerical information from the same sources. Introduces such basics as the history of the field, the characteristics of Earth's magnetic field, the magnetization process and the magnetic properties of sediments, laboratory techniques, and the elements necessary to any investigation. Then surveys the latest findings and integrations from the Jurassic through the Quaternary marine and terrestrial sedimentation, and reports on recent efforts to expand magnetic studies to other periods. Also discusses secular variation and the application of magnetic studies to other types of geological material. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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