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RECORD NUMBER: 1 OF 1Main Title | Nearshore marine paleoclimatic regions, increasing zoogeographic provinciality, molluscan extinctions, and paleoshorelines, California : Late Oligocene (27 Ma) to Late Pliocene (2.5 Ma) / | |||||||||||
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Author | Hall, Clarence A. | |||||||||||
Publisher | Geological Society of America, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2002 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 49513015 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0813723574; 9780813723570 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Paleoclimatology--California ; Paleoclimatology--Neogene ; Paleoclimatology--Oligocene ; Mollusks, Fossil--California ; Paleontology--Neogene ; Neogene Geologic Period ; Oligocene Geologic Epoch ; Paleoclimatologia--Calif ornia ; Mollusca--Calif ornia ; Oligoceno--Calif ornia ; Plioceno--Calif ornia ; Paleoclimatologia--Califórnia ; Mollusca--Califórnia ; Oligoceno--Califórnia ; Plioceno--Califórnia | |||||||||||
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Collation | viii, 489 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | Issued in slipcase; accompanied by 19 folded col. leaves of plates. Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-489). |
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Contents Notes | 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. |