The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, 1. köideHafner Publishing Company, 1962 |
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... Epoch as affecting the Distribution of Animals.— The remarkable refrigeration of climate in the northern hemi- sphere within the epoch , of existing species , to which the term Glacial epoch is applied , together with the changes of ...
... Epoch as affecting the Distribution of Animals.— The remarkable refrigeration of climate in the northern hemi- sphere within the epoch , of existing species , to which the term Glacial epoch is applied , together with the changes of ...
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... epoch . Still later than these we have the shells of the drift , almost all of which are northern and many of them arctic species . Among the mammalia indicative of cold , are the mammoth and the reindeer . In gravels and cave- deposits ...
... epoch . Still later than these we have the shells of the drift , almost all of which are northern and many of them arctic species . Among the mammalia indicative of cold , are the mammoth and the reindeer . In gravels and cave- deposits ...
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... epoch . Next we have the Pliocene period , divided into its later portion ( the Newer Pliocene ) which includes the Glacial epoch of the northern hemisphere ; and its earlier portion ( the Older Pliocene ) , repre- sented by the red and ...
... epoch . Next we have the Pliocene period , divided into its later portion ( the Newer Pliocene ) which includes the Glacial epoch of the northern hemisphere ; and its earlier portion ( the Older Pliocene ) , repre- sented by the red and ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | 10 |
Means of Dispersal of Mammalia p 10Climate as a Limit to the Range | 17 |
CHAPTER III | 35 |
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