Screen LibraryEocene-oligocene climatic and biotic evolution /
The transition from the Eocene to the Oligocene epochs was the most significant event in earth history since the extinction of dinosaurs. As the first Antarctic ice sheets appeared, major extinctions and faunal turnovers took place on the land and in the sea, eliminating forms adapted to a tropical...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
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[1992] ©1992 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Course Book. |
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The transition from the Eocene to the Oligocene epochs was the most significant event in earth history since the extinction of dinosaurs. As the first Antarctic ice sheets appeared, major extinctions and faunal turnovers took place on the land and in the sea, eliminating forms adapted to a tropical world and replacing them with the ancestors of most of our modern animal and plant life. Through a detailed study of climatic conditions and of organisms buried in Eocene-Oligocene sediments, this volume shows that the separation of Antarctica from Australia was a critical factor in changing oceanic circulation and ultimately world climate. In this book forty-eight leading scientists examine the full range of Eocene and Oligocene phenomena. Their articles cover nearly every major group of organisms in the ocean and on land and include evidence from paleontology, stable isotopes, sedimentology, seismology, and computer climatic modeling. The volume concludes with an update of the geochronologic framework of the late Paleogene.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (588 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781400862924 |
| Index Number: | QE737 |
| CLC: | P534.62 |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- EOCENE-OLIGOCENE CLIMATIC AND BIOTIC EVOLUTION: AN OVERVIEW / 1. Toward a Revised Paleogene Geochronology / 2. Magnetostratigraphy and Geochronology of the Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America / 3. Magnetostratigraphy of the Lower and Middle Members of the Devil's Graveyard Formation (Middle Eocene), Trans-Pecos Texas / 4. Redefinition of the Duchesnean Land Mammal "Age," Late Eocene of Western North America / 5. Mammalian Range Zones in the Chadronian White River Formation at Flagstaff Rim, Wyoming / 6. Eocene-Oligocene Climatic Change in North America: The White River Formation near Douglas, East-Central Wyoming / 7. Evidence from the Antarctic Continental Margin of Late Paleogene Ice Sheets: A Manifestation of Plate Reorganization and Synchronous Changes in Atmospheric Circulation over the Emerging Southern Ocean? / 8. Middle Eocene to Oligocene Stable Isotopes, Climate, and Deep-Water History: The Terminal Eocene Event? / 9. Late Eocene and Early Oligocene in Southern Australia: Local Neritic Signals of Global Oceanic Changes / 10. Paleogene Climatic Evolution: A Climate Model Investigation of the Influence of Continental Elevation and Sea-Surface Temperature upon Continental Climate / 11. Eocene-Oligocene Faunal Turnover in Planktic Foraminifera, and Antarctic Glaciation / 12. Middle Eocene-Late Oligocene Bathyal Benthic |