Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Abbreviations xv
5. 1. Getting Started 1
6. 2. Location, Location, Location 17
7. 3. Floods, Temperature, Evolution, and It’s about Time 125
8. 4. How Do They Do That? 155
9. 5. Early On: Middle Cretaceous through the Early Eocene 173
10. 6. Transition: Middle Eocene through the Early Miocene 209
11. 7. Modernizing: Middle Miocene through the Pliocene 235
12. 8. Latest Touch: The Great Ice Ages 275
13. 9. The Bigger Picture: Implications of Past Environmental Changes in the New World 315
14. 10. Pole to Pole: A Walk over the Landscape, a Walk through Time 339
15. Epilogue 367
16. Index 373