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From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Marine Eocene-Oligocene Transition

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From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Marine Eocene-Oligocene Transition - Prothero, Donald R (Editor), and Ivany, Linda (Editor), and Nesbitt, Elizabeth (Editor)
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The marine Eocene-Oligocene transition of 49-34 million years ago was a critical turning point in Earth's climatic history, when the warm, high-diversity "greenhouse" world of the early Eocene ceded to the glacial, "icehouse" conditions of the early Oligocene. This book surveys the advances in stratigraphic and paleontological research and isotopic analysis made since 1989 in regard to marine deposits on the coasts of North America. In particular, the book summarizes the high-resolution details of the so-called "doubthouse" ...

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From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Marine Eocene-Oligocene Transition 2003, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231127165

Hardcover