The pleistocene period : its climate, chronology and faunal successions.
Frederick E. Zeuner.
London : The Ray Society, 1945.
xii, 322 págs. : ilustraciones ; 22 cm.
Serie: Ray Society ; 130
Bibliografía: p. 279-304.
Contenido
- Preface
- Introduction
- Ch.I. Some principles of pleistocene stratigraphy
- Ch.II. Climatic fluctuations and relative chronology of the pleistocene in the formerly glaciated areas of continental Europe and North America
- Ch.III. The periglacial area of continental Europe
- Ch.IV. The pleistocene chronology of the British Isles
- Ch.V. The astronomical theory as the basis of an absolute chronology of the pleistocene
- Ch.VI. The absolute chronology of the pleistocene
- Ch.VII. Climatic phases of the upper pleistocene in the countries around the mediterranean sea
- Ch.VIII. The astronomical theory applied to the tropical zone of Africa, to South Africa and to Antartica
- Ch.IX. The fluctuations of the sea-level and the world-wide extension of the absolute chronology of the pleistocene
- Ch.X. Faunal evolution in the pleistocene
- Bibliography
- Index.