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Frozen in Time
Jeffrey Stilwell
John Long
其他書名
Prehistoric Life in Antarctica
出版
Csiro Publishing
, 2011-10-12
主題
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Fossils
Nature / General
Nature / Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures
Science / Earth Sciences / General
Science / Paleontology
Social Science / Archaeology
ISBN
0643096353
9780643096356
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0LSaBpILqsoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
No other continent on Earth has undergone such radical environmental changes as Antarctica. In its transition from rich biodiversity to the barren, cold land of blizzards we see today, Antarctica provides a dramatic case study of how subtle changes in continental positioning can affect living communities, and how rapidly catastrophic changes can come about. Antarctica has gone from paradise to polar ice in just a few million years, a geological blink of an eye when we consider the real age of Earth. Frozen in Time presents a comprehensive overview of the fossil record of Antarctica framed within its changing environmental settings, providing a window into a past time and environment on the continent. It reconstructs Antarctica’s evolving animal and plant communities as accurately as the fossil record permits. The story of how fossils were first discovered in Antarctica is a triumph of human endeavour. It continues today with modern expeditions going out to remote sites every year to fill in more of the missing parts of the continent’s great jigsaw of life.