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Autore |
Graham Alan <1934-> |
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Titolo |
Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic history of North American vegetation, north of Mexico / / Alan Graham |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-756112-8 |
1-280-76137-7 |
9786610761371 |
0-19-534437-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (372 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Paleobotany - Cretaceous |
Paleobotany - Cenozoic |
Plants, Fossil - North America |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 1999. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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