
By James G. Ogg
This concise instruction manual offers a precis of Earth's historical past over the last 4.5 billion years in addition to a quick evaluate of contemporaneous occasions at the Moon, Mars and Venus. The authors were on the vanguard of chronostratigraphic study and projects to create a global geologic time scale for a few years, and the charts during this e-book current the freshest, overseas normal, as ratified through the overseas fee on Stratigraphy and the overseas Union of Geological Sciences. This booklet is a necessary reference for all geoscientists, together with researchers, scholars, and petroleum and mining pros. The presentation is non-technical and illustrated with various color charts, maps and images. The publication additionally features a removable laminated card of the entire time scale to be used as a convenient reference within the place of work, laboratory or box.
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