Author:
Graham, Alan, 1934-
Imprint:Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Descriptionxvi, 387 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Note:Getting started -- Location, location, location -- Floods, temperature, evolution, and it's about time -- How do they do that? -- Early on : the first modern ecosystems, middle Cretaceous through the early Eocene -- Transition : middle Eocene through the early Miocene -- Modernizing : middle Miocene through the Pliocene -- Latest touch : the great ice ages -- The bigger picture : implications of past environmental changes in the New World -- Pole to pole : a walk over the landscape, a walk through time.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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