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| PART I: THE PACIFIC RIM | ||
| 1. | Pacific Coast Eocene-Oligocene Marine Chronostratigraphy: A Review and an Update Donald R. Prothero |
1 |
| 2. | Turnovers in Marine Gastropod Faunas During the Eocene-Oligocene Transition,
West Coast of the United States Richard L. Squires |
14 |
| 3. | Biotic Response to the Eocene-Oligocene Transition: Gastropod Assemblages in the
High-Latitude North Pacific Anton E. Oleinik and Louie Marincovich Jr. |
36 |
| 4. | Changes in Shallow-Marine Faunas from the Northeastern Pacific Margin Across the Eocene/ Oligocene Boundary Elizabeth A. Nesbitt |
57 |
| 5. | Evidence for Abrupt Eocene-Oligocene Molluscan Faunal Change in the Pacific Northwest Carole S. Hickman |
71 |
| 6. | An Overview of Eocene-Oligocene Echinoderm Faunas of the Pacific Northwest Casey Burns and Rich Mooi |
88 |
| 7. | Upper Eocene Greenhouse Deposits in Southern Australia: Paleoclimatology and
Paleoceanography Paul R. Gammon, Yvonne Bone, Jonathan D. A. Clarke, and Noel P. James |
107 |
| 8. | The Meiji Drift Body and Late Paleogene-Neogene Paleoceanography of the
North Pacific-Bering Sea Region
David W. Scholl, Andrew J. Stevenson, Marlene A. Noble, and David K. Rea |
119 |
| 9. | Cetacean Evolution and Eocene-Oligocene Oceans Revisited R. Ewan Fordyce |
154 |
| 10. | Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Vegetation and Climate in the Pacific Northwest Jeffrey A. Myers |
171 |
PART II: THE ATLANTIC, GULF, AND CARIBBEAN |
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| 11. | Sequence Stratigraphy of the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary Interval: Southeastern Mississippi Ronald J. Echols, John M. Armentrout, Stephan A. Root, Larry B. Fearn, James C. Cooke, B. Kirby Rodgers, and Peter R. Thompson | 189 |
| 12. | Late Middle Eocene Glacioeustasy: Stable Isotopes and Foraminifera from the Gulf Coastal Plain John V. Hurley and Richard H. Fluegeman | 223 |
| 13. | Paleogene Temperature History of the U.S. Gulf Coastal Plain Inferred from d18O of Fossil Otoliths Linda C. Ivany, Kyger C Lohmann, and William P. Patterson | 232 |
| 14. | The Palynological Record of Late Eocene Climate Change, Northwest Gulf of Mexico Thomas E. Yancey, William C. Elsik, and Recep H. Sancay | 252 |
| 15. | Palynological Patterns in Uppermost Eocene to Lower Oligocene Sedimentary Rocks in the U.S. Gulf Coast Francisca E. Oboh-Ikuenobe and Carlos A. Jaramillo | 269 |
| 16. | Late Eocene-Early Oligocene Benthic Foraminifera in the Gulf Coastal Plain: Regional vs. Global Influences Richard H. Fluegeman | 284 |
| 17. | Upper Paleogene Larger Foraminiferal Succession on a Tropical Carbonate Bank, Nicaragua Rise, Caribbean Region Edward Robinson | 294 |
| 18. | Molluscan Faunas Across the Eocene/Oligocene Boundary in the North American Gulf Coastal Plain, with Comparisons to Those of the Eocene and Oligocene of France David T. Dockery III and Pierre Lozouet | 303 |
| 19. | Biotic Patterns in Eocene-Oligocene Mollusks of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, U.S.A. David C. Campbell and Matthew R. Campbell | 341 |
| 20. | Diversity Patterns in Eocene and Oligocene Echinoids of the Southeastern United States Burchard D. Carter | 354 |
| 21. | The Eocene-Oligocene Transition in Marine Vertebrates of the Gulf Coastal Plain Earl M. Manning | 366 |
| 22. | A Brief Account of the Evolution of the Caribbean Seaway: Jurassic to Present Manuel A. Iturralde-Vinent | 386 |
| 23. | The Eocene-Oligocene Transition in the Equatorial Atlantic (ODP Site 925): Paleoproductivity Increase and Positive d13C Excursion Liselotte Diester-Haass and Jim Zachos | 397 |
PART III: THE NORTH SEA AND TETHYS |
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| 24. | The Eocene/Oligocene Boundary in the North Sea Area: A Sequence Stratigraphic
Approach Noel Vandenberghe, Henk Brinkhuis, and Etienne Steurbaut |
419 |
| 25. | Deep-Water Benthic Foraminiferal Events from the Massignano Eocene/Oligocene Boundary Stratotype, Central Italy Rodolfo Coccioni and Simone Galeotti |
438 |
| 26. | Stratigraphy and Benthic Foraminiferal Events Across the Middle-Late Eocene Transition in Western Negev, Israel Roberto Barbieri, Chaim Benjamini, Simonetta Monechi, and Viviana Reale |
453 |
| 27. | The Development of Facies Patterns of Middle Eocene to Lower Oligocene
Circum-Alpine, Shallow-Water Carbonate Environments James H. Nebelsick, Michael Rasser, and Davide Bassi |
471 |
PART IV: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES |
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| 28. | Late Eocene Impacts: Geologic Record, Correlation, and Paleoenvironmental Consequences C. Wylie Poag, Edward Mankinen, and Richard D. Norris |
495 |
| 29. | Boundaries, Turnover, and the Causes of Evolutionary Change: A Perspective from the Cenozoic Warren D. Allmon |
511 |
| 30. | The Marine Eocene-Oligocene Transition: A Synthesis Linda C. Ivany, Elizabeth A. Nesbitt, and Donald R. Prothero
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522 |
| Contributors | 535 | |
| Index | ||
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