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Discrete biochronological time scales. (English) Zbl 1323.92002

Cham: Springer (ISBN 978-3-319-21325-5/hbk; 978-3-319-21326-2/ebook). xviii, 160 p. (2015).
Publisher’s description: The object of this book is to explain how to create a synthesis of complex biostratigraphic data, and how to extract from such a synthesis a relative time scale based exclusively on the fossil content of sedimentary rocks. Such a time scale can be used to attribute relative ages to isolated fossil-bearing samples. The book is composed of 10 chapters together with several appendices. It is a totally revised version of “Biochronological correlations” published in 1991 and includes various new chapters. The book offers a solution for the theoretical problem of how fossils can be used to make reliable quantitative stratigraphic correlations in sedimentary geology. It also describes the use of highly efficient software along with several examples. The authors compare their theoretical model with 2 other relevant studies: probabilistic stratigraphy and constrained optimization (CONOP).

MSC:

92-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to biology
92B99 Mathematical biology in general
92D15 Problems related to evolution
05C90 Applications of graph theory
05C05 Trees
05C10 Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory
05C38 Paths and cycles
05C40 Connectivity
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