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Autore: | Graham Alan |
Titolo: | Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic history of North American vegetation, north of Mexico [[electronic resource] /] / Alan Graham |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (372 p.) |
Disciplina: | 551.770972 |
561/.197 | |
Soggetto topico: | Paleobotany - Cretaceous |
Paleobotany - Cenozoic | |
Plants, Fossil - North America | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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.: | 9910451138503321 |
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