Geochronology in Canada / / ed. by Freleigh Osborne.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Baadsgaard, H.,; Cumming, G. L.,; Dineley, D. L.,; Dreimanis, A.,; Folinsbee, R. E.,; Gabrielse, H.,; Godfrey, J. D.,; Kelley, D. G.,; Larochelle, A.,; Morley, L. W.,; Neale, E. R. W.,; North, F. K.,; Osborne, F. Fitz,; Poole, W. H.,; Reesor, J. E.,; Stockwell, C. H.,; de Wit, R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Osborne, Freleigh,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©1964
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (156 p.)

This volume is made up of papers presented at a colloquium of the Geology Devision of Section III of the Royal Society of Canada at the annual meeting in Quebec, June 1963. The papers fall into two groups: in one group the validity and shortcomings of the methods of establishing the geographical tim...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• PREFACE
• CONTENTS
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INTRODUCTION
• THE GEOLOGICAL TIME-SCALE
• THE CHRONOLOGICAL VALUE OF FOSSILS
• LIMITATIONS OF RADIOMETRIC DATING
• PALAEOMAGNETISM AS A MEANS OF DATING GEOLOGICAL EVENTS
• PRINCIPLES OF TIME-STRATIGRAPHIC CLASSIFICATION IN THE PRECAMBRIAN
• AGE AND CORRELATION PROBLEMS IN THE APPALACHIAN REGION OF CANADA
• HISTORICAL GEOLOGY OF THE DEVONIAN SYSTEM IN WESTERN CANADA
• GEOCHRONOLOGY OF PLUTONIC ROCKS IN TWO AREAS OF THE CANADIAN CORDILLERA
• NOTES ON THE PLEISTOCENE TIME-SCALE IN CANADA