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- ISBN 9780231127165
- Dimensions: 216 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2003
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The marine Eocene-Oligocene transition of 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 around the world. In particular, it summarizes the high-resolution details of the so-called doubthouse interval (roughly 45 to 34 million years ago), which is critical to testing climatic and evolutionary hypotheses about the Eocene deterioration. The authors' goals are to discuss the latest information concerning climatic and oceanographic change associated with this transition and to examine geographic and taxonomic patterns in biotic turnover that provide clues about where, when, and how fast these environmental changes happened.
They address a range of topics, including the tectonic and paleogeographic setting of the Paleogene; specific issues related to the stratigraphy of shelf deposits; advances in recognizing and correlating boundary sections; trends in the expression of climate change; and patterns of faunal and floral turnover. In the process, they produce a valuable synthesis of patterns of change by latitude and environment.
Donald R. Prothero is professor of geology at Occidental College. He is the author of The Eocene-Oligocene Transition: Paradise Lost (Columbia, 1993), Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America, and Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology. Linda C. Ivany is assistant professor of earth sciences at Syracuse University. Elizabeth A. Nesbitt is Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the Burke Museum and a member of the geological sciences faculty at the University of Washington. Donald Prothero earned his M.A. (1978), M.Phil. (1979), and Ph.D. in 1982 from Columbia University. His career has included appointments at several prestigious institutes of higher learning, most recently as a Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology and as an Associate Professor of Geology at Occidental College. Donald has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is an active member of many geological societies.
