Quaternary Stratigraphy Of Asia An The Pacific Igcp 596

Comprises a selection of 17 papers presented at the third and fourth regional meetings of Project 296 of the International Geological Correlation Programme, held in Thailand and Viet Nam during 1991 and 1992, respectively. They include (but are not limited to) information on stratigraphic subdivision and climatic changes, the significance of palynology, Pleistocene-Holocene unconformity, radiocarbon and thermoluminiscence dating, and Holocene sea level changes. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This is the first volume in the English language to cover the entire range of the geology of Thailand since the joint Thai-US account by Brown et al. exactly 60 years ago. Over this period there has been a phenomenal growth in interest in this core area of SE Asia. This has been led by geologists in Thailand, but with important and highly significant input from geologists based elsewhere in Asia and in Europe, Australasia and North America. Some of that research was prompted by commercial considerations, since Thailand has important energy and mineral resources, while other research has sought to understand better the stratigraphic and structural history, including the plate-tectonic story which Thailand's rocks reveal. This new volume seeks to bring together all of this knowledge into a single accessible book; it is the work of an international team drawn from Thailand, Japan, Australia, USA, Canada, Germany and the UK.