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Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic history of North American vegetation, north of Mexico / / Alan Graham
| Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic history of North American vegetation, north of Mexico / / Alan Graham |
| Autore | Graham Alan <1934-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (372 p.) |
| Disciplina |
551.770972
561/.197 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Paleobotany - Cretaceous
Paleobotany - Cenozoic Plants, Fossil - North America |
| ISBN |
0-19-756112-8
1-280-76137-7 9786610761371 0-19-534437-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910956534803321 |
Graham Alan <1934->
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A natural history of the New World : the ecology and evolution of plants in the Americas / / Alan Graham
| A natural history of the New World : the ecology and evolution of plants in the Americas / / Alan Graham |
| Autore | Graham Alan <1934-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (404 p.) |
| Disciplina | 561.097 |
| Soggetto topico |
Paleobotany - America - Tertiary
Paleobotany - America - Cretaceous Paleobotany - America - Cenozoic Plant ecology - America Plants - Evolution - America Plants, Fossil - America |
| ISBN |
9786613058249
9781283058247 1283058243 9780226306827 0226306828 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Getting started -- Location, location, location -- Floods, temperature, evolution, and it's about time -- How do they do that? -- Early on : the first modern ecosystems, middle Cretaceous through the early Eocene -- Transition : middle Eocene through the early Miocene -- Modernizing : middle Miocene through the Pliocene -- Latest touch : the great ice ages -- The bigger picture : implications of past environmental changes in the New World -- Pole to pole : a walk over the landscape, a walk through time. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910973573003321 |
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Graham Alan <1934->
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| Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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