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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Greater Antilles"”.
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The history of sedimentation and abyssal circulation on the Greater Antilles outer ridge
The Greater Antilles Outer Ridge is an 1800 km long, submarine sedimentary ridge which lies below 5000 m in the southwestern North Atlantic Ocean. Seismic reflection profiles and core data indicate that the ridge is composed of more than 6 x 104 km3 of acoustically transparent sediment which has …
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The history of sedimentation and abyssal circulation on the Greater Antilles outer ridge
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, 1973.
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Systematics, Biogeography and Leaf Anatomy and Architecture of Bursera subgen. Bursera (Burseraceae) in the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas
… regarding the arrival of the modern biota to the Greater Antilles and Bahamas (GAB). I conclude that all endemic taxonomic entities of the genus in this region belong to <em>Bursera</em> subgen. <em>Bursera</em> but that two separate lineages colonized the GAB via dispersal. The genus diversified …
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Studies of new world treehoppers of the subfamily Centrotinae with emphasis on the Caribbean fauna (hemiptera: membracidae)
… support for a single colonization of the Greater Antilles by Mesoamerican ancestors.
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Aspectos da variação morfométrica em Triacanthagyna septima (Selys, 1857) (Insecta, Odonata, Aeshnidae), com notas sobre a sua taxonomia
… septima occurs from South Mexico and Greater Antilles to Southeastern Brazil. This species shows morphological variations of discrete nature in some structures of the wing venation. These variations were analyzed, using statistical methods, in 225 specimens from Southeastern Brazil. …
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Phylogeny, Classification, and Biogeography of the Cycloteline Therevinae (Diptera: Therevidae)
… hypotheses favoring continental origins of the Greater Antilles. Ozodiceromyia is considered in more detail from a phylogenetic perspective, and relevant literature is summarized for all species in the genus. Twenty-seven members of this genus are compared using 70 adult morphological …
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The tectonic evolution of the North Central Caribbean plate margin
… development of the Cayman Trough and the Greater Antilles Ridge. This development is connected with the relative motions of the North and South Americas and the eastern Pacific plates. Thus, the pre-Tertiary history of the region is one of simple convergence. This contrasts with the …
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Lake Sediment-Based Reconstructions of Late-Holocene Lowland Environments of Dominican Republic and Barbuda, Northern Caribbean
… from lowland seasonally-dry vegetation of the Greater Antilles, informed our ideas on vegetation-pollen representation in different plant communities, including tropical dry forest, thorn forest, mangrove, mudflat, and lagoon. My modern pollen results also aided in the interpretation of …
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Historical Biogeography of the Tribe Chiococceae (Rubiaceae)
… long-distance dispersal events from the Greater Antilles, one to the New Caledonia and another to other islands of the West Pacific, resulted in the amphi-Pacific tropical disjunction in the Chiococceae.</p>