The vegetation of Antarctica through geological time /
"The fossil history of plant life in Antarctica is central to our understanding of the evolution of vegetation through geological time and also plays a key role in reconstructing past configurations of the continents and associated climatic conditions. This book provides the only detailed overv...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Table des matières:
- 1. Historical background and geological framework
- 2. Early and middle Paleozoic climates and colonisation of the land
- 3. Collapsing ice sheets and evolving polar forests of the middle to late Paleozoic
- 4. Icehouse to hothouse : floral turnover, the Permian-Triassic crisis and Triassic vegetation
- 5. Gondwana break-up and landscape change across the Triassic-Jurassic transition and beyond
- 6. Fern-conifer dominated early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) ecosystems and the angiosperm invasion
- 7. The origin of southern temperate ecosystems
- 8. The heat is on: Paleogene floras and the Paleocene-Eocene warm period
- 9. After the heat: late Eocene to Pliocene climatic cooling and modification of the Antarctic.