Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Feb 1989
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989georl..16..119s&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 16, Feb. 1989, p. 119-122.
Mathematics
Logic
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Biological Evolution, Extinction, Geochronology, Paleobiology, Paleontology, Periodic Variations, Errors, Histograms, Spectrum Analysis, Time Series Analysis
Scientific paper
Structure in the geologic time scale reflects a partly paleontological origin. As a result, ages of Cenozoic and Mesozoic stage boundaries exhibit a weak 28-Myr periodicity that is similar to the strong 26-Myr periodicity detected in mass extinctions of marine life by Raup and Sepkoski. Radiometric dating errors in the geologic time scale, to which the mass extinctions are stratigraphically tied, do not necessarily lessen the likelihood of a significant periodicity in mass extinctions, but do spread the acceptable values of the period over the range 25-27 Myr for the Harland et al. time scale or 25-30 Myr for the DNAG time scale. If the Odin time scale is adopted, acceptable periods fall between 24 and 33 Myr, but are not robust against dating errors. Some indirect evidence from independently-dated flood-basalt volcanic horizons tends to favor the Odin time scale.
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