The Early Middle Pleistocene in Europe

ISBN-13: 9789054106005 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 344 str.

Charles Turner

Opis

These papers show how new research in the classic areas and Germany, but particularly in Eastern Europe, is radically altering views of the stratigraphy and palaeocology of the early-middle Pleistocene period, showing that major glaciations did not begin only in the late- middle Pleistocene.

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Preface -- Outline of the stratigraphy and vegetational history of the Cromer Forest-bed Formation /R.G.West -- Vertebrate faunas from the early Middle Pleistocene of East Anglia /A.J.Stuart -- The stratigraphical interpretation of large mammal remains from the Cromer Forest-bed Formation /A.M.Lister -- Early and Middle Pleistocene equids from Norfolk and northern Suffolk /A.Azzaroli -- Malacological evidence relating to the stratigraphical position of the Cromerian /T.Meijer & R.C.Preece -- Early Middle Pleistocene fossiliferous sediments in the Kesgrave Formation at Broomfield, Essex, England /P.L.Gibbard, M.M.Aalto, G.R.Coope, A.P.Currant, J.M.McGlade, S.M.Peglar, R. C Preece, C Turner, C.A Whiteman & R. C Wrayton -- A revised model for terrace formation and its significance for the early Middle Pleistocene terrace aggradations of north-east Essex, England /D.R.Bridgland & P.Allen -- Palaeoclimatic significance of mammalian faunas from Westbury Cave, Somerset, England /C.B.Stringer, P.Andrews & A.P.Currant -- The Cromerian Complex Stage of the Netherlands and correlation with other areas in Europe /W.H.Zagwijn -- Palynostratigraphy of the Middle Pleistocene sequence from Gottingen, Otto-Strasse /E.Griiger -- The interglacial site of Hunteburg near Quakenbriick (NW Germany) /J.Hahne -- The Karlich Interglacial site and its correlation with the Bilshausen sequence /F.Bittmann & H.Miiller -- On Pre-Wiirm glacial and interglacial deposits of the Rhine Glacier (South German Alpine Foreland, Upper Swabia, Baden-Wiirttemberg) /E.Bibus, W.Bludau, D.Ellwanger, K.Fromm, M.Kosel & A Schreiner -- Quaternary sections with palaeosols in southern Bavaria, Germany /H.Jerz & W.Grottenthaler -- TheMimomys-Arvicola boundary and the enamel thickness quotient (SDQ) of Arvicola as stratigraphic markers in the Middle Pleistocene /W. V Koenigswald & T.Van Kolfschoten -- Early Middle Pleistocene mammalian faunas from Karlich and Miesenheim I and their biostratigraphical implications /T.van Kolfschoten & E.Turner -- The importance of mammalian faunas from the early Middle Pleistocene of France /M-F.Bonifay -- The mammals of the latest Villafranchian in Italy /G.Ficcarelli, F.Masini, P.Mazza & D.Torre -- Possible 'Cromerian Complex' equivalent sequences in the Russian Plain /M.N.Alekseev -- The Ferdynandowian Interglacial and its stratigraphical position in the Middle Pleistocene of Europe /J.Rzechowski -- A brief survey of the early Middle Pleistocene in Europe /C.Turner -- The INQUA-approved provisional Lower-Middle Pleistocene boundary /G.M.Richmond -- Author index.

O autorze

Department of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.