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Eocene-Oligocene Climatic and Biotic Evolution
By (Author) Donald R. Prothero
Edited by William A. Berggren
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
560.178
Paperback
584
Width 216mm, Height 279mm
1332g
The transition from the Eocene to the Oligocene epochs was the most significant event in earth history since the extinction of dinosaurs. As the first Antarctic ice sheets appeared, major extinctions and faunal turnovers took place on the land and in the sea, eliminating forms adapted to a tropical world and replacing them with the ancestors of mos