| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| 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 |
| Summary |
1. Setting the Goal: Modern Vegetation of North America--Composition and Arrangement of Principal Plant Formations. 2. Cause and Effect: Factors Influencing Composition and Distribution of North American Plant Formations through Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Time. 3. Context. 4. Methods, Principles, Strengths, and Limitations. 5. Late Cretaceous through Early Eocene North American Vegetational History: 70-50 Ma. 6. Middle Eocene through Early Miocene North American Vegetational History: 50-16.3 Ma. 7. Middle Eocene through Pliocene North American Vegetational History: 16.3-1.6 Ma. 8. Quaternary |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Paleobotany -- Cretaceous.
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Paleobotany -- Cenozoic.
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Plants, Fossil -- North America
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SCIENCE -- Paleontology.
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Cenozoic Geologic Period
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Cretaceous Geologic Period
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Paleobotany
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Plants, Fossil
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Paleobotanie.
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Krijt (geologisch tijdvak)
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Neozoicum.
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North America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780195344370 |
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0195344375 |
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