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After a decade of new findings and interpretation based on innovative techniques during the 1980s, archaeologists were pretty sure that 38 million years ago the earth still basked in a subtropical "greenhouse" that had lasted since the age of dinosaurs, but 5 million years later there were glaciers in the Antarctic, signalling the beginning of the "icehouse" state that we know now. Here is a summary of the present understanding of the climatic and biological changes, for nonspecialists who have
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Prothero, Donald R.
- Publisher
- New York: Columbia University Press
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231080910
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Biology, Science, Stem
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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