Carboniferous giants and mass extinction : the late Paleozoic Ice Age world /

Picture a world of dog-sized scorpions and millipedes as long as a car; tropical rainforests with trees towering over 150 feet into the sky and a giant polar continent five times larger than Antarctica. That world was not imaginary; it was the earth more than 300 million years ago in the Carbonifero...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McGhee, George R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Temas:
From 230 to 570 million years ago
Mass extinctions.
Extinction (Biology)
Climatic changes.
Glacial epoch.
Paleobotany > Carboniferous.
Paleontology > Carboniferous.
Paleoclimatology > Paleozoic.
Extinction, Biological
Climate Change
Extinctions massives.
Extinction (Biologie)
Climat > Changements.
Époque glaciaire.
Paléobotanique > Carbonifère.
Paléontologie > Carbonifère.
climate change.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution.
Carboniferous Geologic Period
Climatic changes
Glacial epoch
Mass extinctions
Paleobotany
Paleoclimatology
Paleontology
Paleozoic Geologic Period
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Harbingers of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
  • The big chill
  • The Late Carboniferous ice world
  • Giants in the earth
  • The end of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
  • The end of the Paleozoic world
  • The legacy of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age.

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