Miocene

Author : Edward J. Petuch
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439811601
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Molluscan Paleontology of the Chesapeake Miocene written by Edward J. Petuch and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chesapeake Miocene will always be considered a paleontological treasure. Given the richness and accessibility of the Maryland and Virginia Miocene shell beds, it seems remarkable that very few people have ever described new species from these strata over the past 185 years. Until now. Integrating elements from paleontology, geology, environmental science, and ecology, Molluscan Paleontology of the Chesapeake Miocene assembles previous research and the authors’ experience into a synoptic field guide. The most complete compendium of Miocene species created since 1904, this long-awaited resource lists nearly 500 species. It contains illustrations of 260 species, including more than 60 not found in any previous book and 26 newly discovered. It describes Chesapeake molluscan faunas in terms of local geology, paleoceanography, and marine paleobiology. Organized by stratigraphic geology, the book covers fossils of the Eastover, St Mary’s, Choptank, and Calvert Formations. It illustrates 24 collecting sites and fossil exposures, showing details of in situ specimens, along with maps of 4 Miocene paleoseas and detailed stratigraphic columns for Maryland and northern Virginia. The text is accompanied by downloadable resources with color illustrations of the forty known species of ecphora shells. Armed with these, you should be able to identify the species found in the amazingly rich shell beds of the Chesapeake Bay area.

Author : Daniel I. Axelrod
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520097971
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miocene Purple Mountain Flora of Western Nevada written by Daniel I. Axelrod and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, nine florules from the Chloropagus Formation near Fernley, Nevada, are dated at 14.7-13.4 million years. The author finds that dominant mixed conifer forest and sclerophyll woodland species of the Sierra Nevada-Klamath region replaced exotic deciduous hardwoods in the two lowest sites. He concludes that this change reflects the loss of adequate summer rain as upwelling from a colder ocean resulted from spreading East Antarctic ice.

Author : A. Montanari
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080536576
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miocene Stratigraphy written by A. Montanari and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1997-06-18 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrated stratigraphy is essential for ⧫ detailed paleoecologic studies of critical intervals in Earth history ⧫ the calibration of the time scale for global use ⧫ the establishment of Global Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs) for the definition of chronostratigraphic boundaries. This book constitutes an excellent and probably unique example of how interdisciplinary stratigraphic and geochronologic studies are approached with modern methodologies and techniques. It contains numerous unpublished, accurate radioisotopic dates of volcano-sedimentary layers interbedded in fossiliferous marine and continental Miocene sequences representing Mediterranean and Pacific environments. New, extremely detailed paleontologic data which constitute the basis for an accurate definition of the Miocene biostratigraphy, and the study of the ecologic evolution of Miocene marine environments are also included. The chapters are complimented by black-and-white photographs, graphic figures, and tables. Stratigraphers, paleontologists and sedimentologists plus geologists working in oil companies will certainly find this work of interest.

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080869346
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miocene of the S.E. United States written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miocene of the S.E. United States

Author : Maria Mutti
Publisher : John Wiley and Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444349155
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carbonate Systems During the Olicocene-Miocene Climatic Transition written by Maria Mutti and published by John Wiley and Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oligocene and Miocene Epochs comprise the most important phases in the Cenozoic global cooling that led from a greenhouse to an icehouse Earth. Recent major advances in the understanding and time-resolution of climate events taking place at this time, as well as the proliferation of studies on Oligocene and Miocene shallow-water/neritic carbonate systems, invite us to re-evaluate the significance of these carbonate systems in the context of changes in climate and Earth surface processes. Carbonate systems, because of a wide dependence on the ecological requirements of organisms producing the sediment, are sensitive recorders of changes in environmental conditions on the Earth surface. The papers included in this Special Publication address the dynamic evolution of carbonate systems deposited during the Oligocene and Miocene in the context on climatic and Earth surfaces processes focusing on climatic trends and controls over deposition; temporal changes in carbonate producers and palaeoecology; carbonate terminology; facies; processes and environmental parameters (including water temperature and production depth profiles); carbonate producers and their spatial and temporal variability; and tectonic controls over architecture. This book is part of the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) Special Publications. The Special Publications from the IAS are a set of thematic volumes edited by specialists on subjects of central interest to sedimentologists. Papers are reviewed and printed to the same high standards as those published in the journal Sedimentology and several of these volumes have become standard works of reference.

Author : Maryland Geological Survey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miocene written by Maryland Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mikael Fortelius
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231113588
Total Pages : 432 pages
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Download or read book Geology and Paleontology of the Miocene Sinap Formation, Turkey written by Mikael Fortelius and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sinap Formation in central Turkey near the city of Ankara preserves a rich record of mammalian evolution from about 15 to 5 million years ago and is one of the few sites in this region that also has fossil apes. It is unique among other fossil localities from Europe to Western Asia in that it has a thick stratigraphic section and preserves a long record of geological time. The authors have been able to piece together a detailed record of faunal change and, by adding paleomagnetic and radiometric dating techniques, have produced a chronostratigraphy for the Formation. Because of the dual importance of the rich record of the fossils, and the dating of the sediments, the editors have been able to attract some of the leading authorities on Eurasian Neogene paleontology and geology to contribute to this reference work. The results from the Sinap Formation will be the template against which other sites from Europe to Asia are compared.

Author : James P. Kennett
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813711630
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miocene Ocean written by James P. Kennett and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1985 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julia Anna Gardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
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Download or read book Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina written by Julia Anna Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Warren O. Addicott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California written by Warren O. Addicott and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Additional title page description: Systematic description and stratigraphic distribution of 182 early and middle Miocene taxa.