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Vanished ocean : how Tethys reshaped the world /
This is a book about an ocean that vanished six million years ago - the ocean of Tethys. Named after a Greek sea nymph, there is a sense of mystery about such a vast, ancient ocean, of which all that remains now are a few little pools, like the Caspian Sea. There were other great oceans in the histo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Tethys the Sea Goddess; 2 Pangaea the Supercontinent and the Birth of Tethys; 3 Extinction, Evolution and the Great Cycles of Life; 4 Tethyan Fecundity in the Jurassic Seas; 5 Black Death to Black Gold; 6 The Greatest Flood of All Time: Rise and Fall of the Seas; 7 End of an Era: The Debate Continues; 8 Portrait of the Tethys Seaway; 9 Closing Ocean, Rising Mountain; 10 Death Throes of an Ocean; 11 Epilogue: Perspective on the Future.