The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its PeoplesAtlantic Monthly Press, 2001 - 404 halaman This title tells the story of North America over the last 65 million years, from the arrival of the largest asteroid ever to hit the Earth, through the evolution of North America's landscape, mountains, forests, prairies, volcanoes, and rivers, its climate and flora and fauna, and the Burgess shale, through the story of the Native Americans to the arrival of the European invaders. |
Edisi yang lain - Lihat semua
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples Tim Flannery Pratinjau terbatas - 2002 |
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples Tim Flannery Pratinjau terbatas - 2015 |
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples Tim Flannery Pratinjau tidak tersedia - 2007 |
Istilah dan frasa umum
65 million Alaska ancient animals arrived Asia Asian asteroid asteroid impact Australia Aztec Bering land bridge Beringia birds bison Blue Babe bones buffalo Cambridge camels carnivores Celsius cent century climate change Clovis Clovis points continent continent's creatures Cretaceous-Tertiary culture deciduous degrees Celsius deserts Despite dinosaurs diversity Earth ecological ecosystem elephants entelodonts environment Eurasia Europe European evidence Evolution of Tertiary evolved extinction fauna forests fossil record frontier Genyornis geological giant global herbivores herds horses human hunters hunting ice age immigrants Indians inhabited island land bridge large mammals living mammals Mammals of North mastodon megafauna metres Mexico migration million years ago Miocene niche North America northern numbers oreodonts plains plains bison plants Pleistocene population predators region relatives remains rhinos rocks sediments short-faced bears sloths societies South southern species square kilometres survived Tertiary Mammals trees uintathere ungulates University Press vast vegetation Vertebrate York