Describes the Eocene-Oligocene extinctions, an important turning-point in Earth history approximately 40 million years ago, when the first signs of Antarctic glaciation appeared. The text relates how, during a period of global cooling, the planet's climate and vegetation changed dramatically.
| ISBN: | 9780231080910 |
| Publication date: | 23rd June 1994 |
| Author: | Donald R Prothero |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 291 pages |
| Series: | The Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology |
| Genres: |
Palaeontology |