The late Eocene Earth : hothouse, icehouse, and impacts /

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Imprint:Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2009.
Description:viii, 322 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language:English
Series:Special paper ; 452
Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 452.
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7697447
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Other authors / contributors:Koeberl, Christian, 1959-
Montanari, Alessandro.
ISBN:9780813724522 (pbk.)
081372452X (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of Contents:
  • Time-scale construction and periodizing in big history: from the Eocene-Oligocene boundary to all of the past / Walter Alvarez, Philippe Claeys, and Alessandro Montanari
  • Late Eocene impact craters and impactoclastic layers : an overview / Christian Koeberl
  • Late Eocene and late Miocene cosmic dust events : comet showers, asteroid collisions, or lunar impacts? / K.A. Farley
  • The late Eocene clinopyroxene-bearing spherule layer : new sites, nature of the strewn field, Ir data, and discovery of coesite and shocked quartz / Shaobin Liu ... [et al.]
  • A search for extraterrestrial chromite in the late Eocene Massignano section, central Italy / Birger Schmitz, Anders Cronholm, and Alessandro Montanari
  • Stable isotopic response to late Eocene extraterrestrial impacts / Aimee E. Pusz ... [et al.]
  • Late Eocene impact-induced climate and hydrological changes : evidence from the Massignano global stratotype section and point (central Italy) / Rodolfo Coccioni, Fabrizio Frontalini, and Silvia Spezzaferri
  • Evidence for a change in Milankovitch forcing caused by extraterrestrial events at Massignano, Italy, Eocene-Oligocene boundary GSSP / Rachel E. Brown ... [et al.]
  • A critical evaluation of the numerical age of the Eocene-Oligocene boundary / Frits J. Hilgen and Klaudia F. Kuiper
  • The late Eocene greenhouse-icehouse transition : observations from the Massignano global stratotype section and point (GSSP) / Luigi Jovane ... [et al.]
  • Climate threshold at the Eocene-Oligocene transition : Antarctic ice sheet influence on ocean circulation / Kenneth G. Miller ... [et al.]
  • Refined correlation of the UK late Eocene-early Oligocene solent group and timing of its climate history / J.J. Hooker ... [et al.]
  • Biostratigraphy and paleoclimatology of the Eocene-Oligocene boundary section at Toadstool Park, northwestern Nebraska, USA / Alessandro Zanazzi, Matthew J. Kohn, and Dennis O. Terry Jr.
  • The Australo-Antarctic Gulf and the Auversian facies shift / Brian McGowran
  • Nonmarine records of climatic change across the Eocene-Oligocene transition / Nathan D. Sheldon
  • Eocene-Oligocene transition paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental record from the Isle of Wight (UK) / Nathan D. Sheldon ... [et al.]
  • Eocene-Oligocene greenhouse to icehouse transition on a subtropical clastic shelf : the Jackson-Vicksburg groups of the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain of the United States / Richard H. Fluegeman, Jeffry D. Grigsby, and John V. Hurley
  • Reshuffling the cards in the photic zone at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary / Marie-Pierre Aubry and David Bord
  • Integrated stratigraphic and astrochronologic calibration of the Eocene-Oligocene transition in the Monte Cagnero section (northeastern Apennines, Italy) : a potential parastratotype for the Massignano global stratotype section and point (GSSP) / Ethan Hyland ... [et al.].