Uc Publications in Geological Sciences

by Daniel I. Axelrod

In this study, nine florules from the Chloropagus Formation near Fernley, Nevada, are dated at 14.7-13.4 million years. The author finds that dominant mixed conifer forest and sclerophyll woodland species of the Sierra Nevada-Klamath region replaced exotic deciduous hardwoods in the two lowest sites. He concludes that this change reflects the loss of adequate summer rain as upwelling from a colder ocean resulted from spreading East Antarctic ice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520097971
• ISBN13: 9780520097971
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 115 Pages