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

• Autore: Graham Alan
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (372 p.)
• Disciplina: 551.770972; 561/.197
• Soggetto topico: Paleobotany - Cretaceous; Paleobotany - Cenozoic; Plants, Fossil - North America
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic history of North American vegetation, north of Mexico
• ISBN: 0-19-756112-8; 1-280-76137-7; 9786610761371; 0-19-534437-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807474303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.