Life at the top of the greenhouse Eocene world- A review of the Eocene flora and vertebrate fauna from Canada's High Arctic

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 3-23

  Eberle, Jaelyn J ^a   Greenwood, David R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b BRANDON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO; ARCTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE PROXIES; CORYPHODON; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; FORESTED LANDSCAPES; FRESH WATER; FRESHWATER INPUTS; HIGH ARCTIC; INTEGRATED SYNTHESIS; LAND BRIDGES; LAND PLANTS; MIDLATITUDES; RAIN FORESTS; RARE ELEMENTS; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; SURFACE FRESHENING;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSES; MAMMALS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; WATER;

FORESTRY;

BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISCHARGE; EOCENE; FAUNA; FLORA; FOSSIL RECORD; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); VERTEBRATE;

CANADA; CLIMATES; GREENHOUSES; MAMMALS; PLANTS; SEDIMENTS; WATER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA; UNITED STATES;

ALLIGATORINAE; ANIMALIA; ARTIODACTYLA; AZOLLA FILICULOIDES; CONIFEROPHYTA; CUPRESSUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; EQUIDAE; HYOPSODUS; MAMMALIA; PLAGIOMENIDAE; PRIMATES; TAPIRIDAE; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859333332     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30571.1     Document Type: Review

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