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Southern limestones under western eyes [electronic resource] : the modern world evolving in southern Australia / Brian McGowran

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McGowran, Brian
Published
Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, The Australian National University, [2023]
Physical Description
xxii, 408 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
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Australian National University Press
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Contents
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.
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9781760465872 (paperback)
1760465879 (paperback)
9781760465889 (electronic book)
1760465887 (electronic book)
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"This book is published under the aegis of the Science and Engineering editorial board of ANU Press."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-408).
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