Dorothy Helen Rayner, D. Rayner

Stratigraphy of the British Isles

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a reprint of the second edition of Dr Rayner's standard text on the stratigraphy and historical geology of the British Isles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 484
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 779g
• ISBN-13: 9780521299619
• ISBN-10: 0521299616
• Artikelnr.: 26222606

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
1. Introduction
2. Precambrian rocks: the Caledonian forelands and other ancient groups
3. Earlier Caledonian history: Moine, Dalradian, Cambrian
4. Later Caledonian history: Ordovician and Silurian systems
5. The Devonian system
6. Lower Carboniferous or the Dinantian subsystem
7. Upper Carboniferous: the Silesian subsystem and Hercynian orogeny
8. Permian and Triassic systems
9. The Jurassic system
10. The Cretaceous system
11. Tertiary rocks and history
12. Quaternary history: from pre-glacial to glacial stages
13. Epilogue
Appendix: Stratigraphical and zonal tables
Bibliography
Index.