The late Eocene Earth : hothouse, icehouse, and impacts / edited by Christian Koeberl, Alessandro Montanari.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koeberl, Christian, 1959-

Montanari, Alessandro.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 452.

Special paper ; 452

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleoclimatology--Eocene.

Paleoclimatology.

Paleoclimatology--Oligocene.

Geology, Stratigraphic--Eocene.

Geology, Stratigraphic.

Geology, Stratigraphic--Oligocene.

Physical Description:

viii, 322 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2009.

Contents:

Time-scale construction and periodizing in big history: from the Eocene-Oligocene boundary to all of the past / Walter Alvarez, Philippe Claeys, and Alessandro Montanari

Late Eocene impact craters and impactoclastic layers: an overview / Christian Koeberl

Late Eocene and late Miocene cosmic dust events: comet showers, asteroid collisions, or lunar impacts? / K.A. Farley

The late Eocene clinopyroxene-bearing spherule layer: new sites, nature of the strewn field, Ir data, and discovery of coesite and shocked quartz / Shaobin Liu ... [et al.]

A search for extraterrestrial chromite in the late Eocene Massignano section, central Italy / Birger Schmitz, Anders Cronholm, and Alessandro Montanari

Stable isotopic response to late Eocene extraterrestrial impacts / Aimee E. Pusz ... [et al.]

Late Eocene impact-induced climate and hydrological changes: evidence from the Massignano global stratotype section and point (central Italy) / Rodolfo Coccioni, Fabrizio Frontalini, and Silvia Spezzaferri

Evidence for a change in Milankovitch forcing caused by extraterrestrial events at Massignano, Italy, Eocene-Oligocene boundary GSSP / Rachel E. Brown ... [et al.]

A critical evaluation of the numerical age of the Eocene-Oligocene boundary / Frits J. Hilgen and Klaudia F. Kuiper

The late Eocene greenhouse-icehouse transition: observations from the Massignano global stratotype section and point (GSSP) / Luigi Jovane ... [et al.]

Climate threshold at the Eocene-Oligocene transition: Antarctic ice sheet influence on ocean circulation / Kenneth G. Miller ... [et al.]

Refined correlation of the UK late Eocene-early Oligocene solent group and timing of its climate history / J.J. Hooker ... [et al.]

Biostratigraphy and paleoclimatology of the Eocene-Oligocene boundary section at Toadstool Park, northwestern Nebraska, USA / Alessandro Zanazzi, Matthew J. Kohn, and Dennis O. Terry Jr.

The Australo-Antarctic Gulf and the Auversian facies shift / Brian McGowran

Nonmarine records of climatic change across the Eocene-Oligocene transition / Nathan D. Sheldon

Eocene-Oligocene transition paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental record from the Isle of Wight (UK) / Nathan D. Sheldon ... [et al.]

Eocene-Oligocene greenhouse to icehouse transition on a subtropical clastic shelf: the Jackson-Vicksburg groups of the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain of the United States / Richard H. Fluegeman, Jeffry D. Grigsby, and John V. Hurley

Reshuffling the cards in the photic zone at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary / Marie-Pierre Aubry and David Bord

Integrated stratigraphic and astrochronologic calibration of the Eocene-Oligocene transition in the Monte Cagnero section (northeastern Apennines, Italy): a potential parastratotype for the Massignano global stratotype section and point (GSSP) / Ethan Hyland ... [et al.].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780813724522

081372452X

OCLC:

283802919