Book contents
- The Vegetation of Antarctica through Geological Time
- Frontispiece
- Frontispiece
- The Vegetation of Antarctica through Geological Time
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Historical background and geological framework
- 2 Early to middle Paleozoic climates and colonisation of the land
- 3 Collapsing ice sheets and evolving polar forests of the middle to late Paleozoic
- 4 Icehouse to hothouse: floral turnover, the Permian–Triassic crisis and Triassic vegetation
- 5 Gondwana break-up and landscape change across the Triassic–Jurassic transition and beyond
- 6 Fern-conifer dominated Early Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) ecosystems and the angiosperm invasion
- 7 The origin of southern temperate ecosystems
- 8 The heat is on: Paleogene floras and the Paleocene–Eocene warm period
- 9 After the heat: late Eocene to Pliocene climatic cooling and modification of the Antarctic vegetation
- Appendix
- Index
6 - Fern-conifer dominated Early Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) ecosystems and the angiosperm invasion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2012
Book contents
- The Vegetation of Antarctica through Geological Time
- Frontispiece
- Frontispiece
- The Vegetation of Antarctica through Geological Time
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Historical background and geological framework
- 2 Early to middle Paleozoic climates and colonisation of the land
- 3 Collapsing ice sheets and evolving polar forests of the middle to late Paleozoic
- 4 Icehouse to hothouse: floral turnover, the Permian–Triassic crisis and Triassic vegetation
- 5 Gondwana break-up and landscape change across the Triassic–Jurassic transition and beyond
- 6 Fern-conifer dominated Early Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) ecosystems and the angiosperm invasion
- 7 The origin of southern temperate ecosystems
- 8 The heat is on: Paleogene floras and the Paleocene–Eocene warm period
- 9 After the heat: late Eocene to Pliocene climatic cooling and modification of the Antarctic vegetation
- Appendix
- Index
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- The Vegetation of Antarctica through Geological Time , pp. 189 - 248Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012