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Formal ratification of the Quaternary System/Period and the Pleistocene Series/Epoch with a base at 2.588 Ma

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2010

Authors

Gibbard, Phillip
Head, Martin J.
Walker, Michael J.C.
Alloway, B.
Beu, A.
Coltorti, M.
Hall, V.M.
Jiaqi, Liu
Knudsen , K.L.
van Kolfschoten, T.

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Wiley-VCH Verlag GMBH

Abstract

In June 2009, the Executive Committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) formally ratified a proposal by the International Commission on Stratigraphy to lower the base of the Quaternary System/Period to the Global Stratotype Section

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Keywords: geochronology; marine isotope stage; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Quaternary; stratotype; Calabria; Caltanissetta; Italy; Monte San Nicola; Sicily Gelasian; Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP); Pleistocene; Quaternary; Quaternary/Pleistocene lower boundary

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/51349

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ANU Research Publications

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Journal of Quaternary Science

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10.1002/jqs.1338

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2037-12-31

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