The Scientific Study of Flint and Chert

Proceedings of the Fourth International Flint Symposium Held at Brighton Polytechnic 10 15 April 1983
Herausgeber: G. De G., Sieveking; Sieveking, G. De G.; M. B., Hart

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The thirty papers in this 1986 volume review the scientific knowledge of the nature of flint and chert.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 799g
• ISBN-13: 9780521169158
• ISBN-10: 0521169151
• Artikelnr.: 31385625

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; List of contributors; 1. Flint stratigraphy and its relationship
to archaeology F. Schmid; 2. The distribution of flint in the English
chalk, with particular reference to the 'Brandon Flint Series' and the high
Turoniam flint maximum R. N. Mortimore and C. J. Wood; 3. Controls on Upper
Cretaceous sedimentation in the South Downs, with particular reference to
flint distribution R. N. Mortimore; 4. The chemical environment of flint
formation in Upper Cretaceous chalks C. J. Clayton; 5. The origin of cherts
as members of high productivity sequences: isotopic evidence Y. Kolodny; 6.
The cherts of the Upper Greensand (Cretaceous) of south-east Devon C. L.
Williams; 7. Flint and fabric in the European chalk R. G. Bromley and A. A.
Ekdale; 8. Rhythms, flint and mesofossils in the Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)
of Limburg, The Netherlands P. J. Felder; 9. Upper Cretaceous flint meal
faunas from southern England M. B. Hart, H. W. Bailey, A. Swiecicki and B.
R. Lakey; 10. Foraminiferids from decayed chalk flints and some examples of
their use in geological interpretation D. Curry; 11. Siliceous coatings on
fossil coccoliths - how did they arise? L. S. Dent Glasser and D. N. Smith;
12. Perigord cherts: an analytical frame for investigating the movement of
Paleolithic hunter-gatherers and their resources R. R. Larick; 13. Sources
of raw materials used for the manufacture of chipped stone implements in
Hungary C. Takács-Biró; 14. Geochemistry and the provenance of flint axes
P. R. Bush and G. de G. Sieveking; 15. Flint gravels in the Quaternary of
south-east England P. L. Gibbard; 16. The nature, origin and
geomorphological significance of clay-with-flints J. A. Catt; 17.
Periglacial phenomena in the South Downs R. B. G. Williams; 18.
Palynological evidence for early and permanent woodland on the chalk of
central Hampshire P. V. Waton; 19. The postglacial molluscan succession of
the South Downs dry valley C. Ellis; 20. Transported flint in Ireland: a
charter of investigation for prehistory and geology C. S. Briggs; 21. Flint
and Pre-Quaternary geomorphology in south Sweden and south-west England K.
Lidmar-Bergström; 22. Sand grain surface textures D. Krinsley and P.
Trusty; 23. Scanning electron micrographs of quartz, flint and obsidian
grains after experimental glacial, subaqueous or aeolian transportation K.
Lindé; 24. Procedures in environmental reconstruction by SEM analysis P. A.
Bull; 25. Simulation of aeolian quartz grain surface textures: some
scanning electron microscopic observations W. B. Whalley and J. R.
Marshall; 26. Practical methods for analysing and quantifying
two-dimensional images W. B. Whalley and J. D. Orford; 27. The analysis of
flint by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry, as a
method of source determination M. Thompson, P. R. Bush and J. Ferguson; 28.
Applications of magnetic resonance in the study of cherts M. C. R. Symons;
29. Investigation of chert heating conditions using ESR spectroscopy D. R.
Griffiths, N. J. Seeley and M. C. R. Symons; 30. Thermoluminescence dating:
a review of application to burnt flint H. Y. Göksu Ögelman.