Nearshore marine paleoclimatic regions, increasing zoogeographic provinciality, molluscan extinctions, and paleoshorelines, California : late Oligocene (27 Ma) to late Pliocene (2.5 Ma) / by Clarence A. Hall, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Clarence A.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 357.

Special paper ; 357

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleoclimatology--California.

Paleoclimatology.

Paleoclimatology--Neogene.

Paleoclimatology--Oligocene.

Mollusks, Fossil--California.

Mollusks, Fossil.

Paleontology--Neogene.

Paleontology.

California.

Physical Description:

viii, 489 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm + 19 maps.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Geological Society of America, 2002.

Contents:

Abstract

Introduction

Procedure. Assigning rock units to time slices ; Taxonomy and latitudinal endpoints of taxa ; Effective temperature ; Paleoshorelines and paleoclimatic regions ; Assignment of rock units to time slices ; Taxonomy and latitudinal endpoints of taxa ; Effective temperature ; Present-day molluscan and paleomolluscan provinces ; Climatic regions ; Continental climatic regions defined by temperature ; Marine climatic regions defined by temperature ; Effective temperature for fossil taxa ; Percentage of fossil taxa with a particular effective temperature

Paleoshoreline maps and Paleoclimatic regions

Results

Discussion. Role of temperature in limiting distribution of marine mollusks ; Regional and global climatic changes ; Extralimital and extraprovincial or thermally anomalous molluscan taxa ; Regional extinction events ; Temperate marine paleoclimate ; Paleogeography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-489)

ISBN:

0813723574

OCLC:

49513015