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Geologic TimeScale Foundation - Stratigraphic Information
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Admin
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Home Board Members
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GSSPs
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Charts & Books
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Stratigraphic Guide Resources
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TS Creator
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GSSP Table - Cenozoic Era
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Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) Ages from "Geologic Time Scale 2020" by F.M. Gradstein, J.G. Ogg, M.D. Schmitz and G.M. Ogg, (2020, Elsevier).
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Cenozoic Era Mesozoic Era Paleozoic Era Precambrian All Periods
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Stage
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Age (Ma) GTS 2020
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GSSP
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Location
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Latitude, Longitude
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Boundary Level
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Correlation Events
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Quaternary System
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Holocene Series
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Mawmluh
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Cave
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Meghalayan Stage
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0.00425
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Mawmluh Cave, 25.2622°N Meghalaya,India 91.7150°E
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speleothem dated at 4250yr bk2
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(before
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AD2000)
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Stable isotope profile shows a shift to heavier isotopic values,
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borehole
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Northgrippian Stage
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0.008236
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NGRIP1 in central Greenland
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the ice
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sheet
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1228.67 m 75.1000°N depth in 42.3200°W NGRIP 1 ice
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core
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Climatic cooling following a period of generally rising temperatures during the Early Holocene
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Greenlandian Stage
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0.0118
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NorthGRIP ice core, central Greenland
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1492.45m 75.1000°N depth in 42.3200°W Borehole
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NGRIP2
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Climatic -- End of the Younger Dryas cold spell, which is reflected in a shift in deuterium excess values
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Pleistocene Series
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Upper Pleistocene 0.126 Stage
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Taranto, Italy
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0.0000°N 0.0000°E
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63.5 m below surface
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Climatic -- Base of the Eemian interglacial stage (= base of marine isotope stage 5e) before final glacial episode of Pleistocene.
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Chibanian 0.78 Chiba, Japan
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Byk-E tephra; 1.1
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m below
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directional
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Base of Byk-E tephra bed
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midpoint of Brunhes– Matuyama
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magnetic
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reversal (base of
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Chron 1n)
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Calabrian 1.8 Stage
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Vrica, Italy
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39.0385°N base of the top of Olduvai
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17.1348°E marine
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magnetic
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claystone
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subchron is
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overlying the about 8 m above
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sapropelic the GSSP
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marker Bed 'e'
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(Mediterranean
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Precession
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https://timescalefoundation.org/gssp/
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Status
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Reference
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Ratified Episodes 41/4, 2018 2018
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Ratified Episodes 41/4, 2018 2018
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Ratified 2008
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Episodes 31/2, 2008; J. Quaternary Sci., Vol. 24 pp. 3-17, 2009; Episodes 41/4, 2018
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Episodes 31/2, 2008
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Ratified 2019
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Ratified 1985
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Episodes 8/2, p. 116 - 120, 1985; Episodes 35/3, p. 388 - 397, 2012
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1/4
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Gelasian Stage
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2.58
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Neogene System Pliocene Series
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Piacenzian Stage
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3.6
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Zanclean Stage
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5.333
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Miocene Series
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Messinian Stage
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7.25
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Tortonian Stage
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11.63
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Serravallian Stage
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13.82
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Langhian Stage
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15.99
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Burdigalian Stage
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20.45
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Monte San Nicola, Sicily, Italy
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Geologic TimeScale Foundation - Stratigraphic Information
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Related Sapropel, MPRS 176)
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Magnetic --
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Matuyama/Gauss
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37.1469°N 14.2035°E
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base of marly layer overlying sapropel MPRS 250
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boundary (C2r/C2An) is 1m below GSSP. GSSP level is within Marine
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Isotope Stage
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103.
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Definition
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as base of
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Quaternary and
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Pleistocene
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Episodes 21/2, 82-87, 1998
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p.
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ratified
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2009
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Punta Piccola, Sicily, Italy
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Eraclea Minoa, Sicily, Italy
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Magnetic --
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base of the Gauss/Gilbert
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beige marl bed (C2An/C2Ar)
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37.2889°N of small-scale magnetic
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13.4933°E carbonate reversal is
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cycle 77
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recorded
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(MPRS 347) immediately
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above the GSSP
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37.3917°N 13.2806°E
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base of the Trubi Formation which corresponds Insolation cycle 510
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to
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Magnetic -- base of the Thvera magnetic event (C3n.4n) is only 96 kyr (5 precession cycles) younger than the GSSP.
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Oued Akrech, Morocco
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Planktonic
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foraminifer first
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regular
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reddish layer occurrence of
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33.9369°N of sedimentary Globorotalia
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6.8125°W cycle number miotumida, and
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15
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calcareous
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nannofossil FAD
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Amaurolithus
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delicatus
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Calcareous
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Monte dei Corvi Beach, near Ancona, Italy
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mid-point of 43.5867°N sapropel layer 13.5694°E of basic cycle
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number 76.
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nannofossil last common occurrence of Discoaster
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kugleri
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Ras il Pellegrin section, Fomm Ir-Rih Bay, west coast of Malta
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35.9139°N 14.3361°E
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formation boundary between the Globigerina Limestone and Blue Clay Formation
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Oxygen-isotopic event (global cooling episode) Mi3b; near calcareous nannofossil LAD ofSphenolithus heteromorphus
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St. Peter's Pool, Malta or La Vedova,Italy
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Base of magnetic polarity chron C5Br
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Potentially in astronomicallytuned ODP core
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Near FAD of calcareous nannofossil Helicosphaera ampliaperta
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Ratified Episodes 21/2, p. 1997 88-93, 1998
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Ratified Episodes 23/3, p. 2000 179 - 187, 2000
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Ratified Episodes 23/3, p. 2000 172 - 178, 2000
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Ratified Episodes 28/1, p. 2003 6 - 17, 2005
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Ratified Episodes, 32/3, 2007 152 - 166, 2009
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https://timescalefoundation.org/gssp/
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2/4
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Aquitanian Stage
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23.04
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Paleogene System Oligocene Series
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Chattian Stage
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27.3
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Rupelian Stage
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33.9
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Eocene Series
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Priabonian Stage
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37.7
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Bartonian Stage
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41
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Lutetian Stage
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48.1
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Ypresian Stage
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56
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Paleocene Series
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Thanetian Stage
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59.2
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LemmeCarrioso Section, Allessandria Province, Italy
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Geologic TimeScale Foundation - Stratigraphic Information
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44.6589°N 8.8364°E
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35m from top of the section
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the
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Magnetic -- base of Chron C6Cn.2n; planktonic foraminifer FAD of Paragloborotalia kugleri; calcareous nannofossil near LAD Reticulofenestra bisecta (base Zone NN1); Oxygen isotopic event Mi-1.
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Ratified 1996
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Episodes 20/1, p. 23 - 28, 1997
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Monte Cagnero, Umbria-Marche region, Italy
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43.6466°N 12.4677°E
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at meter level 197
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HCO (highest common occurrence) of planktonic foraminifer Chiloguembelina cubensis
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Massignano, near Ancona, Italy
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base of a 0.5m
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43.5328°N 13.6011°E
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thick greenishgrey marl bed 19m above
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Foraminifer LAD Hantkenina and Cribrohantkenina
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base of section
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Foraminifer LAD
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of
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Alano di Piave 45.9142°N Tiziano Bed at section, NE Italy 11.9180°E 63.57m
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Morozovelloides, Calcareous nannofossil acme
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of Cribrocentrum
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erbae
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Contessa highway section near Gubio, Central Apennines, Italy
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provisional: base of magnetic polarity chronozone C18r
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Gorrondatxe sea-cliff section,Basque Country, northern Spain
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at 167.85 metres in the 43.3796°N Gorrondatxe 3.0143°W section at a dark marly level
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Calcareous nannofossil FAD of Blackites inflatus
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Dababiya, near Luxor, Egypt
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25.5000°N 32.5311°E
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base of Bed in DBH subsection
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1
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Carbon Isotope Excursion base, initiation of basal Eocene Thermal maximum ("PETM")
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About 78 m above the Cretaceous/ Paleogene Zumaia section, 43.2996°N boundary; northern Spain 2.2609°W 6.5m above the base of Member B of the Itzurun Formation
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Magnetic -- Base of Chron C26n
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Ratified Episodes 41/1, p. 2016 17-32, 2018
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Ratified Episodes 16/3, 1992 p.379 - 382, 1993
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Ratified Episodes 44/2, 2020 p.151-173, 2021
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Ratified Episodes 34/2, p. 2011 86 - 108 2011
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Ratified 2003
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Micropaleontology 49/1, p.41 - 59, 2003; Episodes 30/4, p. 271 - 286, 2007
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Ratified Episodes 34/4,p. 2008 220-243, 2011
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https://timescalefoundation.org/gssp/
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3/4
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Selandian Stage
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Danian Stage
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61.7 66
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Geologic TimeScale Foundation - Stratigraphic Information
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Onset of a
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carbon isotope
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Zumaia section, northern Spain
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43.2992°N 2.2610°W
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base of the marls of Itzurun Formation
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red
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shift and sealevel drop, 30 precession cycles (~630 kyr) above the top of
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magnetic polarity
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Chron 27n
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Ratified 2008
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Iridium
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geochemical
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reddish layer anomaly.
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Oued Djerfane, west of El Kef, Tunisia
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36.1537°N 8.6486°E
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at the base of the 50cm thick, dark boundary
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Associated with a major extinction horizon
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clay
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(dinosaurs,
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ammonites,
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foraminifers, etc.)
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Ratified 1991
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Site produced by Dr. Gabi Ogg
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Last updated: 19-Dec-2023
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Episodes 34/4,p. 220-243, 2011
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Episodes 29/4, p. 263 - 278, 2006
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https://timescalefoundation.org/gssp/
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4/4
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