The Eocene-Oligocene Transition: Paradise Lost (Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology)

by D R Prothero (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $71.32

  Describes the Eocene-Oligocene extinctions, an important turning-point in Earth history approximately 40 million years ago, when the first signs of Antarctic glaciation appeared. The text relates how, during a period of global cooling, the planet's climate and vegetation changed dramatically.