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Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Language
English
Description
Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we walked upright long before we acquired large brains, and new evidence from molecules that enable scientists to decipher the tree of life as never before.
The
Author
Publisher
Grand Canyon Association
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"For fifteen years, Ron Blakey of Northern Arizona University has meticulously created maps that show how numerous past landscapes gave rise to the region's stunning geologic formations. Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau is the first book to showcase Blakey's work. His maps are accompanied by text by Wayne Ranney. Ranney takes readers on a fascinating tour of the many landscapes depicted in the maps."--BOOK JACKET.
Author
Series
Wessex Archaeology report volume 25
Publisher
Wessex Archaeology Ltd
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Allow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape. Volcanic islands stretched from Mexico to Alaska, most of the Pacific Rim didn't exist yet, at least not as widespread dry land; terranes drifted from across the Pacific to dock on Western Americas' shores creating mountains and more volcanic activity. Landscapes were transposed...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An investigation of the Pleistocene's dual character, as a geologic time, and as a cultural idea. The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own, a time of ice ages, global migrations, and mass extinctions--of woolly rhinos, mammoths, giant ground sloths, and not least, early species of Homo. It's the world that created ours. But outside that environmental story there exists a parallel narrative that describes how our ideas about...
12) Ice age
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Twenty thousand years ago, as the Earth was being overrun with glaciers, Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger, Sid the sloth, and the human baby Scrat become a courageous quartet braving the frozen terrain and embarking on an incredible journey to return Scrat to human civilization.