Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic history of North American vegetation, north of Mexico / Alan Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, Alan, 1934-

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleobotany--Cretaceous.

Paleobotany.

Paleobotany--Cenozoic.

Plants, Fossil--North America.

Plants, Fossil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An historical account of North American vegetation and paleoenvironments over the past 70 million years, this text includes discussions on the modern plant communities, factors for environmental change, biotics, and methodologies.

Contents:

Contents; Prologue; Outline; Audiences; Acknowledgments; References; Nomenclature; ONE: Setting the Goal: Modern Vegetation of North America-Composition and Arrangement of Principal Plant Formations; TWO: Cause and Effect: Factors Influencing Composition and Distribution of North American Plant Formations through Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Time; THREE: Context; FOUR: Methods, Principles, Strengths, and Limitations; FIVE: Late Cretaceous through Early Eocene North American Vegetational History: 70-50 Ma; SIX: Middle Eocene through Early Miocene North American Vegetational History: 50-16.3 Ma

SEVEN: Middle Miocene through Pliocene North American Vegetational History: 16.3-1.6 MaEIGHT: Quaternary North American Vegetational History: 1.6 Ma to the Present; NINE: Origins of North American Biogeographic Affinities; Epilogue; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-756112-8

1-280-76137-7

9786610761371

0-19-534437-5

OCLC:

434890913