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1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 688 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511665431
Content:
During the transition from the Eocene to the Oligocene epochs, the mild tropical climates of the Paleocene and early Eocene were replaced by modern climatic conditions and extremes, including glacial ice in Antarctica. The best terrestrial record of the Eocene-Oligocene transition is found in North America, including the spectacular cliffs and spires of the Big Badlands National Park, in South Dakota. The first part of this book summarises the latest information in dating and correlation of the strata of late middle Eocene through early Oligocene age in North America, including the latest insights from argon/argon dating and magnetic stratigraphy. The second part reviews almost all the important terrestrial reptiles and mammals found near the Eocene-Oligocene boundary in the White River chronofauna, from the turtles, snakes and lizards to the common rodents, carnivores, artiodactyls, and perissodactyls. This is the first comprehensive treatment of these rocks and fossils in over sixty years and will be an invaluable resource to vertebrate palaeontologists, geologists, mammalogists and evolutionary biologists
Content:
pt. I. The Chronostratigraphy of the Uintan through Arikareean. 1. Magnetic stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the middle Eocene Uinta Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah / D.R. Prothero. 2. Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of the Bridgerian-Uintan Washakie Formation, Washakie Basin, Wyoming / S.M. McCarroll, J.J. Flynn and W.D. Turnbull. 3. Magnetic stratigraphy, sedimentology, and mammalian faunas of the early Uintan Washakie Formation, Sand Wash Basin, northwestern Colorado / R.K. Stucky, D.R. Prothero, W.G. Lohr and J.R. Snyder. 4. Theoretical biochronology, the Bridgerian-Uintan boundary and the "Shoshonian Subage" of the Uintan / S.L. Walsh. 5. Middle Eocene mammalian faunas of San Diego County, California / S.L. Walsh. 6. Stratigraphy and paleomagnetism of the middle Eocene Friars Formation and Poway Group, southwestern San Diego County, California / S.L. Walsh, D.R. Prothero and D.J. Lundquist
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521433877
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521021098
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521433877
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511665431
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