The Eocene-Oligocene Transition: Paradise Lost

ISBN-13: 9780231080910 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 291 str.

Donald R. Prothero

Opis

Describes the Eocene-Oligocene extinctions, an important turning-point in Earth history approximately 40 million years ago, when the first signs of Antarctic glaciation appeared. The text relates how, during a period of global cooling, the planet's climate and vegetation changed dramatically.