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From Greenhouse to Icehouse
. Ed(S): Prothero, Donald R.; Ivany, Linda C.; Nesbitt, Elizabeth A.
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Hardback. The marine Eocene-Oligocene transition of 34 million years ago was a critical turning point in Earth's climatic history, when the warm, high-diversity 'greenhouse' world of the early Eocene ceded to the glacial, 'icehouse' conditions of the early Oligocene. This book surveys the advances in stratigraphic and paleontological research. Editor(s): Prothero, Donald R.; Ivany, Linda C.; Nesbitt, Elizabeth A. Num Pages: 560 pages, 186 line, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RBGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1634.
The marine Eocene-Oligocene transition of 34 million years ago was a critical turning point in Earth's climatic history, when the warm, high-diversity "greenhouse" world of the early Eocene ceded to the glacial, "icehouse" conditions of the early Oligocene. This book surveys the advances in stratigraphic and paleontological research and isotopic analysis made since 1989 in regard to marine deposits around the world. In particular, it summarizes the high-resolution details of the so-called doubthouse interval (roughly 45 to 34 million years ago), which is critical to testing climatic and evolutionary hypotheses about the Eocene deterioration. The authors' goals are to discuss ... Read more
The marine Eocene-Oligocene transition of 34 million years ago was a critical turning point in Earth's climatic history, when the warm, high-diversity "greenhouse" world of the early Eocene ceded to the glacial, "icehouse" conditions of the early Oligocene. This book surveys the advances in stratigraphic and paleontological research and isotopic analysis made since 1989 in regard to marine deposits around the world. In particular, it summarizes the high-resolution details of the so-called doubthouse interval (roughly 45 to 34 million years ago), which is critical to testing climatic and evolutionary hypotheses about the Eocene deterioration. The authors' goals are to discuss ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231127165
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V9780231127165
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About . Ed(S): Prothero, Donald R.; Ivany, Linda C.; Nesbitt, Elizabeth A.
Donald R. Prothero is professor of geology at Occidental College. He is the author of The Eocene-Oligocene Transition: Paradise Lost (Columbia, 1993), Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America, and Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology. Linda C. Ivany is assistant professor of earth sciences at Syracuse University. Elizabeth A. Nesbitt is Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology ... Read more
Reviews for From Greenhouse to Icehouse
An excellent, provocative study on evolutionary change as it relates to extinction... a satisfying closure to a book that seeks to present so great a number of new ideas at once... The dedicated will walk away with an infinitely deeper comprehension of how and which circumstances have affected the environment in major ways-leading the way toward a greater understanding of ... Read more