Nearshore marine paleoclimatic regions, increasing zoogeographic provinciality, molluscan extinctions, and paleoshorelines, California late Oligocene (27 Ma) to late Pliocene (2.5 Ma) /
| Main Author: | Hall, Clarence A. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boulder, CO :
Geological Society of America,
2002.
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| Physical Description: |
viii, 489 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. |
| Series: |
Special papers (Geological Society of America) ;
357. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 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.