From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Marine Eocene-Oligocene Transition

by Elizabeth Nesbitt

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231127162
• ISBN13: 9780231127165
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 3.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.7" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 22 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 12