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BL
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1012471
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b766841
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| Main Entry
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Graham, Alan,1934-
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| Title & Author
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Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic history of North American vegetation : : north of Mexico /\ Alan Graham.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1999.
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1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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0195344375
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: 9780195344370
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019511342X
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9780195113426
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Prologue; Outline; Audiences; Acknowledgments; References; Nomenclature; ONE: Setting the Goal: Modern Vegetation of North America -- Composition and Arrangement of Principal Plant Formations; TWO: Cause and Effect: Factors Influencing Composition and Distribution of North American Plant Formations through Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Time; THREE: Context; FOUR: Methods, Principles, Strengths, and Limitations; FIVE: Late Cretaceous through Early Eocene North American Vegetational History: 70-50 Ma; SIX: Middle Eocene through Early Miocene North American Vegetational History: 50-16.3 Ma.
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| Abstract
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1. Setting the Goal: Modern Vegetation of North America--Composition and Arrangement of Principal Plant Formations. 2. Cause and Effect: Factors Influencing Composition and Distribution of North American Plant Formations through Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Time. 3. Context. 4. Methods, Principles, Strengths, and Limitations. 5. Late Cretaceous through Early Eocene North American Vegetational History: 70-50 Ma. 6. Middle Eocene through Early Miocene North American Vegetational History: 50-16.3 Ma. 7. Middle Eocene through Pliocene North American Vegetational History: 16.3-1.6 Ma. 8. Quaternary.
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Paleobotany-- Cenozoic.
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Paleobotany-- Cretaceous.
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Plants, Fossil-- North America.
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Paléobotanique-- Cénozoïque.
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Paléobotanique-- Crétacé
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Plantes fossiles-- Amérique du Nord.
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Cenozoic Geologic Period.
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Cretaceous Geologic Period.
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Paleobotany.
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Plants, Fossil.
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SCIENCE-- Paleontology.
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Krijt (geologisch tijdvak)
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Neozoicum.
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Paleobotanie.
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North America.
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| Dewey Classification
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561/.197
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| LC Classification
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QE924.G73 1999eb
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