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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956534803321

Autore

Graham Alan <1934->

Titolo

Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic history of North American vegetation, north of Mexico / / Alan Graham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-19-756112-8

1-280-76137-7

9786610761371

0-19-534437-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

551.770972

561/.197

Soggetti

Paleobotany - Cretaceous

Paleobotany - Cenozoic

Plants, Fossil - North America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Prologue; Outline; Audiences; Acknowledgments; References; Nomenclature; ONE: Setting the Goal: Modern Vegetation of North America-Composition and Arrangement of Principal Plant Formations; TWO: Cause and Effect: Factors Influencing Composition and Distribution of North American Plant Formations through Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Time; THREE: Context; FOUR: Methods, Principles, Strengths, and Limitations; FIVE: Late Cretaceous through Early Eocene North American Vegetational History: 70-50 Ma; SIX: Middle Eocene through Early Miocene North American Vegetational History: 50-16.3 Ma

SEVEN: Middle Miocene through Pliocene North American Vegetational History: 16.3-1.6 MaEIGHT: Quaternary North American Vegetational History: 1.6 Ma to the Present; NINE: Origins of North American Biogeographic Affinities; Epilogue; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An historical account of North American vegetation and paleoenvironments over the past 70 million years, this text includes discussions on the modern plant communities, factors for



environmental change, biotics, and methodologies.