CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY AND

GEOLOGIC TIME
Muhammad Virgiawan Agustin
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GEOLOGIC TIME UNIT

GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE

CALIBRATING THE GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE

SUMMARY

CASE STUDY

The main reference:

Boggs Jr., S., 2006. Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy. Pearson. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 4 th ed.
Chapter 15.
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Isochrone geologic time unit:
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To establised a hierarchy of chronostratigraphic units of international scope that can
serve as a standard reference to which the age of rocks everywhere in the world can be
related.
• Chronostratigraphic scale
• Geochronologic (time) scale
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Biochronology
1. Identify and locate in local biostratigraphic
units the FADs and LADs of distinctive fossil
taxa that have wide geographic distribution.
2. If possible, assign ages to these events by direct
or indirect calibration through radiochronology
or magnetotratigraphy.
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Radiochronology
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Radiochronology
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Direct Radiochronology on Sedimentary Rock
1. Carbon-14 Method
2. Radiochronology of Glauconite by use of Potassium-40/Argon-40 and Rubidium-
87/Strontion-87
3. Use of Other Authigenic Minerals
4. Thorium-230 and Thorium-230/Protactinium-231 Methods
SUMMARY
• Radiochronology of sedimentary rock
whose relative positions in the stratigraphic
column are already estabilished can be
accomplished by several methods.
• In general, calibration of the time scale by
estimating ages of volcanic rocks assosiated
with essentially contemporaneous
sedimentary rocks that can easily correlated
by marine fossils in the most usefull and
reliable approach.
• Radiochronology of sedimentary
glauconites or bracketing the ages of
sadimentary rocks from associated plutonic
intrusive rocks may also yield unsable ages
– the only ages available in some cases.
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“Integrated magnetostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and chronostratigraphy of

the Paleogene pelagic succession at Gubbio (central Italy)”
Coccioni et.al. (2016)
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