Research Catalog

Title

History of the Australian vegetation : Cretaceous to recent / edited by Robert S. Hill.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

Hill, Robert S.

Description

x, 433 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Subjects

• Paleobotany > Australia
• Plants > Evolution

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. The Australian fossil plant record: an introduction / R. S. Hill -- 2. Maps of late Mesozoic-Cenozoic Gondwana break-up: some palaeogeographical implications / G. E. Wilford and P. J. Brown -- 3. The background: 144 million years of Australian palaeoclimate and palaeogeography / P. G. Quilty -- 4. Palaeobotanical evidence for Tertiary climates / D. R. Greenwood -- 5. Landscapes of Australia: their nature and evolution / G. Taylor -- 6. Patterns in the history of Australia's mammals and inferences about palaeohabitats / M. Archer, S. J. Hand and H. Godthelp -- 7. Australian Tertiary phytogeography: evidence from palynology / H. A. Martin -- 8. Cretaceous vegetation: the microfossil record / M. E. Dettmann -- 9. Cretaceous vegetation: the macrofossil record / J. G. Douglas -- 10. Early Tertiary vegetation: evidence from spores and pollen / M. K. MacPhail, N. F. Alley, E. M. Truswell and I. R. K. Sluiter -- 11. The early Tertiary macrofloras of continental Australia / D. C. Christophel.
• 12. Cenozoic vegetation in Tasmania: macrofossil evidence / R. J. Carpenter, R. S. Hill and G. J. Jordan -- 13. The Neogene: a period of transition / A. P. Kershaw, H. A. Martin and J. R. C. McEwen Mason -- 14. The Oligo-Miocene coal floras of southeastern Australia / D. T. Blackburn and I. R. K. Sluiter -- 15. Quaternary vegetation / G. S. Hope -- 16. The history of selected Australian taxa / R. S. Hill.

ISBN

0521401976

LCCN

93032747

OCLC

• 28722137
• ocm28722137

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Columbia University Libraries