Describes the Eocene-Oligocene extinctions, an important turning-point in Earth history approximately 40 million years ago, when the first signs of Antarctic glaciation appeared. The text relates how, during a period of global cooling, the planet's climate and vegetation changed dramatically.
- ISBN10 0231080905
- ISBN13 9780231080903
- Publish Date 1 January 1994
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Columbia University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 310
- Language English