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Global Standard Stratigraphic Age
In the stratigraphy sub-discipline of geology, a Global Standard Stratigraphic Age, officially abbreviated GSSA, is a chronological reference point and criterion in the world's rock records used to define the boundaries (an internationally sanctioned benchmark point) between different geological periods, epochs or ages on the overall geologic time scale in a chronostratigraphically useful rock layer. A worldwide multidisciplinary effort has been ongoing since 1974 to define such important metrics.
国際標準層序年代(Global Standard Stratigraphic Age, GSSA) は、層位学において岩層対比に用いられる国際的な時間的指標である。その策定に際しては、1974年から現在に至るまで検討され続けている。
But such work goes slowly despite a lot of effort, as one criterion is such points and strata need be widespread and contain an identifiable sequence of layers or other unambiguous marker (identifiable or quantifiable) attributes.
しかしその作業は、各地層年代区分を明確にする指標を特定する必要があることから、払われる労力に対して遅々としたものである。
GSSAs, and the generally more recent and preferred benchmark GSSPs (below) are defined by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) under the auspices of their parent organization, the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), and are used primarily for time dating of rock layers older than 630 million years ago (Template:MA), before a good fossil record exists. The ICS first expends large effort to meet the standards of the GSSPs (see below) and if those fail, usually have enough information to make a preliminary selection of several competing GSSA prospects or proposals.
GSSA及びより新しい時代の指標であるGSSPは、ICSによって策定され、IUGSによる批准の元に決定されるが、一次指標として6億3000万年以後の化石記録が確認できる地層ではGSSPが、それ以前の化石が確認できない地層についてはGSSAが用いられる。
The geologic record becomes spotty at about 542 Template:MA, and the ICS may well have to resort to defining additional supplementary GSSAs between the two dates. This issue is bound up in the fact that the Earth's crust in geological time scales is constantly being recycled by tectonic and weathering forces, and older rocks and especially readily accessible exposed strata (see the section about selecting the ideal GSSP, in the next link) that can act as a time calibration
For more recent periods, a Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP), largely based on research progress in geobiology and improved methods of fossil dating, is used to define such boundaries. In contrast to GSSAs, GSSPs are based on important events and transitions within a particular stratigraphic section. In older sections, there is insufficient fossil record or well preserved sections to identify the key events necessary for a GSSP, so GSSAs are defined based on fixed dates and selected criteria.
See also
[編集]- Body form
- European Mammal Neogene
- Geologic time scale
- North American Land Mammal Age
- Fauna (animals)
- Type locality
- List of GSSPs
- List of GSSAs
Notes
[編集]References
[編集]- Gehling, James; Jensen, Sören; Droser, Mary; Myrow, Paul; Narbonne, Guy (March 2001). “Burrowing below the basal Cambrian GSSP, Fortune Head, Newfoundland”. Geological Magazine 138 (2): 213–218. doi:10.1017/S001675680100509X. 1.
- Hedberg, H.D., (editor), International stratigraphic guide: A guide to stratigraphic classification, terminology, and procedure, New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1976
- International Stratigraphic Chart from the International Commission on Stratigraphy
- USA National Park Service
- Washington State University
- Web Geological Time Machine
- Eon or Aeon, Math Words - An alphabetical index
External links
[編集]- The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP): overview
- Chart of The Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSP): chart
- Geotime chart displaying geologic time periods compared to the fossil record - Deals with chronology and classifications for laymen (not GSSA/GSSPs)
