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NEW AASP FOUNDATION PUBLICATION The Pliocene: Time of Change edited by: John H. Wrenn, Jean-Pierre Suc and Suzanne A. G. Leroy PREFACE The American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Inc. (AASP), held its 26th Annual Meeting on October 23-29, 1993 at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. During that meeting, a symposium entitled "Palynology, Climate and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Pliocene" was organized to bring together researchers from around the world who are studying the geological record of the Pliocene. Contributions from North America, Europe and several other important geographical areas, as well as from a range of disciplines, were presented at this symposium. It was, therefore, possible to hold cross-disciplinary and trans-border discussions. Understanding the chronology of Pliocene geological, biostratigraphical, sea level and climatic events, and their potential use as analogs for future climate change, were the key purposes of the symposium. Most of the papers contained in this volume were presented at the symposium. Pliocene research is now entering a phase of change in perspective and approach. The results of Pliocene research are becoming increasingly relevant to the problems of the present. This is because research is now focusing on events that occurred over time spans comparable to those of direct interest to society. The application and development of methods that until now have been used most often in Quaternary and even in Holocene studies only, opens unexplored lines of research. In this volume, several papers will show that numerous climatic fluctuations characterize the Pliocene, a time of change.
250 pages, 7 photographic plates, numerous text-figures, hardback.
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