| This volume aims to illustrate the current state of knowledge of the globally warm early Paleogene and to forge links among research conducted in different regions from different perspectives. Its 36 papers are organized into four sections that cover a variety of aspects of the Paleogene warm climate problem: “Climate Mechanisms and Models,” “Marine Biotas, Environments, and Climate Change,” “Continental Biotas, Environments, and Climate Change,” and “Integrated Stratigraphic Framework.” The volume is notable in that it is broad geographically, disciplinarily, taxonomically, and temporally, with an equally impressive variety of approaches. The conference from which this volume emerged (“Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene” held in Powell, Wyoming, in July 2001) was the most recent in a series of conferences devoted to the Paleogene, all of which have had the goal of encouraging the integration of research across the usual lines of terrestrial versus marine, geochemical versus paleontological, and modeling versus observational.
Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene |
