History of the Australian Vegetation
History of the Australian Vegetation

Author: Robert S. Hill

Publisher: University of Adelaide Press

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1925261476

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The Australian vegetation is the end result of a remarkable history of climate change, latitudinal change, continental isolation, soil evolution, interaction with an evolving fauna, fire and most recently human impact. This book presents a detailed synopsis of the critical events that led to the evolution of the unique Australian flora and the wide variety of vegetational types contained within it. The first part of the book details the past continental relationships of Australia, its palaeoclimate, fauna and the evolution of its landforms since the rise to dominance of the angiosperms at the beginning of the Cretaceous period. A detailed summary of the palaeobotanical record is then presented. The palynological record gives an overview of the vegetation and the distribution of important taxa within it, while the complementary macrofossil record is used to trace the evolution of critical taxa. This book will interest graduate students and researchers interested in the evolution of the flora of this fascinating continent.

Intraplate Volcanism
Intraplate Volcanism

Author: R. Wally Johnson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-11-24

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9780521380836

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This study of the young volcanoes of eastern Australia and parts of New Zealand looks at rock types and formation and inclusions of the upper mantle and lower-crustal rocks found in volcanic deposits. It discusses the Earth's crust and the mantle beneath, and the geological evolution in the area over the last 70-80 million years.

Systematics and Evolution of the Sthenurine Kangaroos
Systematics and Evolution of the Sthenurine Kangaroos

Author: Gavin Prideaux

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2004-05

Total Pages: 647

ISBN-13: 0520098455

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The subfamily Sthenurinae (Macropodoidea, Diprotodontia) is an extinct group of robust kangaroos. The earliest sthenurine appears in the late Miocene of central Australia, but the group is most common in the Pleistocene faunas of southern and eastern Australia. Since the Sthenurinae was last reviewed over three decades ago, species diversity has more than doubled. Many species are now also represented by series of well-preserved specimens, including complete crania and skeletons. New insights generated by these discoveries provided the major impetus for this review of sthenurine systematics, functional morphology, paleoecology, biochronology and zoogeography.

Coastal Evolution
Coastal Evolution

Author: R. W. G. Carter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780521598903

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A 1995 review of how shorelines have changed since the last Ice Age, and what this implies for future environmental management.

Continental Shelves of the World
Continental Shelves of the World

Author: F.L. Chiocci

Publisher: Geological Society of London

Published: 2014-11-06

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1862396868

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The world's continental shelves are the sites of vast resources of food, energy and minerals, the exploitation of which is continuously increasing. Fluctuating global sea levels throughout the Quaternary period produced multiple transgressive and regressive cycles that profoundly affected and shaped these shelves. The complex interactions among climate, sea level, tectonics, oceanography and sediment input have formed distinctive sediment packages on each shelf and provide a guide to the interpretation of older shelf sequences throughout the geological record. This Memoir compiles studies on 23 selected shelves from all the continents, focusing on their evolution and examining the patterns of sedimentation during the past approximately 125 000 years. In addition to providing basic background information for each area, the chapters consider specific aspects of continental shelf research, from seismic stratigraphy to geomorphology, from palaeoceanography to palaeo sea-level reconstruction and from palaeontology to geochemistry.