Southern Limestones under Western Eyes The Modern World Evolving in Southern Australia
In Southern Limestones under Western Eyes, Brian McGowran recounts the history of biogeohistory itself: the ever-changing perceptions of rocks, fossils and landscapes, from the late 1600s to the present.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Canberra, Australia :
ANU Press
[2023]
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009803440306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1. What are rock relationships?
- 2. Discovering earth history and calibrating deep time
- 3. Exploration and organic evolution
- 4. Microfossils: ultimate archives of biogeohistory
- 5. Drilled ocean and drifting continent
- 6. The great transformation and the last greenhouse
- 7. The Palaeogene Australo-Antarctic Gulf: tropical swamps in winter darkness
- 8. Farewell, hothouse and farewell, Australo-Antarctic Gulf
- 9. Hello, Southern Ocean: into the arid zone and into the Neogene
- 10. Contingency, consilience and historicity are the guts of biogeohistory
- Epilogue: eternal tensions revisited.
