Southern limestones under western eyes the modern world evolving in southern Australia / Brian McGowran.

Contents Introduction -- 1. What are rock relationships? -- 2. Discovering earth history and calibrating deep time -- 3. Exploration and organic evolution -- 4. Microfossils: ultimate archives of biogeohistory -- 5. Drilled ocean and drifting continent -- 6. The great transformation and the last greenhouse -- 7. The Palaeogene Australo-Antarctic Gulf: tropical swamps in winter darkness -- 8. Farewell, hothouse and farewell, Australo-Antarctic Gulf -- 9. Hello, Southern Ocean: into the arid zone and into the Neogene -- 10. Contingency, consilience and historicity are the guts of biogeohistory -- Epilogue: eternal tensions revisited.
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