عنوان

Nearshore marine paleoclimatic regions, increasing zoogeographic provinciality, molluscan extinctions, and paleoshorelines, California :

0813723574

b523368

Nearshore marine paleoclimatic regions, increasing zoogeographic provinciality, molluscan extinctions, and paleoshorelines, California :

[Book]

late Oligocene (27 Ma) to late Pliocene (2.5 Ma) /

by Clarence A. Hall, Jr

Boulder, CO :

Geological Society of America,

2002

0207

viii, 489 p. :

ill. ;

28 cm. +

19 maps

Special paper ;

357

Accompanied by 19 folded maps

Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-489)

Abstract -- Introduction -- Procedure. Assigning rock units to time slices ; Taxonomy and latitudinal endpoints of taxa ; Effective temperature ; Paleoshorelines and paleoclimatic regions ; Assignment of rock units to time slices ; Taxonomy and latitudinal endpoints of taxa ; Effective temperature ; Present-day molluscan and paleomolluscan provinces ; Climatic regions ; Continental climatic regions defined by temperature ; Marine climatic regions defined by temperature ; Effective temperature for fossil taxa ; Percentage of fossil taxa with a particular effective temperature -- Paleoshoreline maps and Paleoclimatic regions -- Results -- Discussion. Role of temperature in limiting distribution of marine mollusks ; Regional and global climatic changes ; Extralimital and extraprovincial or thermally anomalous molluscan taxa ; Regional extinction events ; Temperate marine paleoclimate ; Paleogeography

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Mollusks, Fossil-- California

Paleoclimatology-- California

Paleoclimatology-- Neogene

Paleoclimatology-- Oligocene

Paleontology-- Neogene

Hall, Clarence A

20021107132104.0

[Book]

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