Avalon 1997 The Cambrium Standard (New York State Museum Bulletin Series, No. 492)
Contributors: Ed Landing (Editor); Stephen R. Westrop (Editor)
Publisher: New York State Museum
Published: October 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9781555572099
Subjects: Nature/Ecology
First sentence: Following ratification of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) in 1992 at the base of the Trichophycus pedum Zone at Fortune Head, eastern Newfoundland (Landing, 1994; formerly Phycodes pedum, see Geyer and Uchman, 1995), the focus of the International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy has been on defining globally useful chronostratigraphic divisions of the Cambrian.