A Revised Correlation of Quaternary Deposits in the British Isles
A Revised Correlation of Quaternary Deposits in the British Isles
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不列颠群岛第四纪矿床的修正相关性
DOI：
10.1144/sr23
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发表时间：
1999
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
D. Bowen
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作者：
D. Bowen
随着 20 世纪 60 年代末和 1970 年代初对氧同位素地层学的重新解释，人们认识到第四纪岩石的大陆记录比迄今为止认为的更为复杂。这就需要进行全面的重新评估，而陆地和陆地-海洋相关性的新地质年代学方法的出现则有助于这一评估。英格兰、爱尔兰、苏格兰和威尔士相关性的这套修订后的提案中介绍了此类相关性的现状，其中还包括大陆架第四纪地质。与氧同位素地层学全球标准的相关性使英国岩石地层单位的重要性能够在更广泛的背景下得到认识，包括东北大西洋边缘气候系统的演变。因此，它为国际古海洋学和古气候学界提供了及时的英国数据，并且提出的相关性主要是在米兰科维奇时间尺度上。但它们的出现恰逢范式转变的早期阶段，即在千年时间尺度上寻找陆地和陆地-海洋相关性，然后在百年和十年时间尺度上寻找陆地和陆地-海洋的相关性。这是许多类似的陆地和陆地-海洋相关性中的第一个。
Realization that continental records of Quaternary rocks were more complex that hitherto believed came with the re-interpretation of oxygen isotope stratigraphy in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This necessitated a comprehensive re-evaluation that has been assisted by the emergence of new geochronological methods for terrestrial as well as land-sea correlations. The current state of such correlations is presented in this revised set of proposals for correlations in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, which also includes the Quaternary geology of the continental shelf. Correlation with the global standard of oxygen isotope stratigraphy enables the significance of British lithostratigraphical units to be appreciated in a wider context that includes the evolution of the climate system on the margin of the northeast Atlantic Ocean. It thus provides timely British data for the international palaeoceanographical and palaeoclimatological community and the correlations proposed are primarily on Milankovitch timescales. But their appearance coincides with the early stages of a paradigm shift to the search for both terrestrial and land-sea correlation on millennial timescales and then on centennial and decadal ones. This is the first of many similar terrestrial and land-sea correlations.