The Pliocene Verdi Flora of Western Nevada (Classic Reprint)

The Pliocene Verdi Flora of Western Nevada (Classic Reprint)

Author: Daniel I. Axelrod

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-25

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9780365546559

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Excerpt from The Pliocene Verdi Flora of Western Nevada The Verdi locality is in the Truckee River valley 1 mile east of Verdi, at an elevation of feet adjacent to the south bank of the Truckee River. The east west trending river valley is 2 to 3 miles wide, hemmed in by mountains on the north, south, and west. To northward is Peavine Mountain, whose summit lies at an altitude of feet 5 miles distant. To southward, the valley is terminated by the north end of the Carson Range, a subsidiary block of the Sierra Nevada whose rolling summit upland reaches feet 7 miles distant. Crystal Peak ridge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


The Miocene Purple Mountain Flora of Western Nevada

The Miocene Purple Mountain Flora of Western Nevada

Author: Daniel I. Axelrod

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780520097971

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In this study, nine florules from the Chloropagus Formation near Fernley, Nevada, are dated at 14.7-13.4 million years. The author finds that dominant mixed conifer forest and sclerophyll woodland species of the Sierra Nevada-Klamath region replaced exotic deciduous hardwoods in the two lowest sites. He concludes that this change reflects the loss of adequate summer rain as upwelling from a colder ocean resulted from spreading East Antarctic ice.