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Palaeogene Bioistratigraphy, Heard Island
Entry ID: ASAC_411

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Recent discoveries in the Vestfold Hills, in the Larsemann Hills and near the South Pole, of fossil vertebrates, microfossils and wood in Pliocene sediments all indicate that Antarctica was considerably warmer at various times in the Pliocene than at present. However, data are sparse, the results very tentative, and there is conflict ... View entire text
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  N: -53.0   S: -79.0   E: 179.0   W: 70.0

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Start Date: 2001-01-01
Stop Date: 2002-03-08
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Publications/References
Asrar, Ghassem and Reynold Greenstone, MTPE EOS Reference Handbook. Maryland,
US: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, 1995.

ESRI, Understanding GIS--The ARC/INFO Method. Cambridge, United Kingdom, UK:
GeoInformation International, 1997.

Klein, Larry, David Wynne, Doug Ilg, Joel Gales and Raj Gejjagaraguppe, HDF-EOS
Library User's Guide for the ECS Project. Maryland, US: Raytheon Information
Technology Systems, 1997.

Wharton, Stephen W. and Monica Faeth Myers, MTPE EOS Data Products Handbook.
Maryland, US: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, 1997.
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SERF Creation Date: 2000-10-31
SERF Last Revision Date: 2012-12-14

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