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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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Cantrill, David J., 1962-
Autres auteurs: Poole, Imogen
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: 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.