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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Plio-Pleistocene"”.

  1. Plio-pleistocene tectonic evolution of Southern Sardinia

    COCCO, FABRIZIOUniversità degli Studi di Cagliari2014

    … the structures and the kinematic related to the Plio-Pleistocene tectonics in southern Sardinia, although tectonic activity during the latest million years is long since known in the Island. Then, the general aim of this research is to improve the understanding of the recent geological evolution …

    cagliari Repository record

  2. Climate, Ecology, and Human Evolution during the Plio-Pleistocene

    Blumenthal, Scott AdamThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2017

    … C<sub>3</sub>-C<sub>4</sub> mixed feeding taxa. Pleistocene and Holocene ecosystems in southwestern Kenya, where there is the most complete record over the past 2 million years, are persistently dominated by C<sub>4</sub>-grazers.</p> <p>The second part of this dissertation is focused on climate …

    cuny-grad Repository record

  3. Plio-Pleistocene Drainage Evolution of The Vera Basin, SE Spain

    Stokes, Martin1997

    … basin undergoing uplift and inversion during the Plio-Pleistocene. Particular emphasis is placed on the drainage evolution during that period. Located within the Internal zone of the Betic Cordilleras, the Vera Basin is defined within a large left-lateral shear zone and has evolved as a reponse to …

    plymouth Repository record

  4. Cross-sectional Morphology and Mechanical Loading in Plio-Pleistocene Hominins: Implications for Locomotion and Taxonomy

    Bleuze, Michele MThe University of Western Ontario2010

    … explores locomotion and locomotor variability in Plio-Pleistocene hominins by examining cross-sectional properties and mechanical loading patterns in the proximal and midshaft femur of Paranthropus, fossil Homo sp. and H. erectus. Modern human and Pan models are used for comparative purposes. …

    uwo Repository record

  5. Reconstructing Soft Tissues of Plio-Pleistocene Hominids using Comparative Anatomy of Modern Humans & Great Apes

    Campbell, Ryan Miles2022

    … for approximating the facial soft tissues of Plio-Pleistocene hominids. This was accomplished by identifying bone and soft tissue covariation patterns in the head of primates, including modern humans, and applying these relationships to Plio-Pleistocene hominid skulls. The overarching …

    adelaide Repository record

  6. Revisiting the palaeoenvironments of the South African hominid-bearing Plio Pleistocene sites : new isotopic evidence from Sterkfontein

    Luyt, JulieDepartment of Archaeology2001

    … reconstruction of South African PlioPleistocene sites based on δ¹³C and δ¹⁸O isotopes extracted from enamel of fossil fauna. New isotopic results from Sterkfontein Members 4 and 5 are reported to supplement existing data from Makapansgat and Swartkrans in order to examine the …

    cape-town Repository record

  7. Effects of environmental change on species: Marvacrassatella lineage and the Plio-Pleistocene record of sea level change

    Tobias, Amy E.Virginia Tech1998

    … the Chowan River Formation) from the early late Pliocene to the early Pleistocene from Virginia to Florida were examined. Eighteen quantitative measurements were made on each valve. Principal-components analysis assessed shape variation within the Marvacrassatella lineage. Canonical discriminant …

    vt Repository record

  8. Neotectonic deformation features in plio-pleistocene coastal aeolianites: palaeoseismology and earthquake hazard implications for the Southern Cape, South Africa

    Hodge, Matthew SotheronDepartment of Geological Sciences2013

    Deformation features within Plio-Pleistocene Bredasdorp Group coastal aeolianites within the Southern Cape, South Africa, have been studied to resolve the neotectonic history of the region, estimate the recent to current upper-crustal stress field, and infer seismic hazard. Previous studies …

    cape-town Repository record

  9. Pollen and grain size records in abyssal sediments of the northwest Pacific Ocean as proxies of Plio-Pleistocene climate change /

    Little, Martin Lewis.Brock University2005

    … to climate change in East Asia since the mid-Pliocene. Dust-sized particles (including pollen), sourced from the arid regions and loess plateaus in East Asia are entrained by prevailing westerly winds and transported to the midlatitude northwest North Pacific Ocean. This is recorded by peaks …

    brock Repository record

  10. Architecture of fluvio-deltaic sandbodies: the Namurian of Co. Clare, Ireland, as an analogue for the Plio-Pleistocene of the Nile Delta

    Stirling, Eleanor JaneUniversity of Leeds2003

    … of reservoir quality sandstones within the Plio-Pleistocene deltaic succession. Limited core data, and poor seismic imaging due to gas seepage effects, hindered past attempts to assess the internal architecture and facies of the sandbodies. Therefore it was considered appropriate to use an …

    whiterose Repository record

  11. Dietary ecology of mixed-feeding antelopes in the Omo-Turkana basin during the Plio-Pleistocene: a tool to investigate hominin palaeo-environments.

    Crete, LucileBournemouth University2021

    … in the Omo-Turkana basin during the Plio-Pleistocene (3.5-1.6 Ma), a detailed study of the dietary ecology of mixed-feeding antelopes was proposed. This research focused on the diets of the impala (genus Aepyceros) and the springbok (genus Antidorcas), whose extant relatives …

    bournemouth Repository record

  12. Pliocene-Pleistocene Radiolarian Investigations of the Equatorial Oceans

    Haslett, Simon1998

    … a detailed palaeoenvironmental study of the Plio-Pleistocene Olduvai magnetosubchron (1.95-1.79Ma) of the equatorial Indo-Pacific Oceans. A number of radiolarian tools are used as palaeoceanographic proxies, including the recognition of distinct glacial and interglacial assemblages, which …

    southwales Repository record

  13. It’s clam-plicated: how functional traits influenced extinction patterns of Neogene West Atlantic mollusks

    Betz, Amy GraceUniversity of Kansas2024

    … from the West Atlantic (WA) during the Plio-Pleistocene are a well-studied and well-preserved group in the fossil record, and many species from this time period are extant. The periods of global warming during the Plio-Pleistocene can be used as an analog for predicted future climate …

    ku Repository record

  14. An actualistic butchery study in South Africa and its implications for reconstructing hominid strategies of carcass acquisition and butchery in the upper pleistocene and plio-pleistocene

    Nilssen, Peter JohnDepartment of Archaeology2000

    … of carcass acquisition and butchery in the upper pleistocene and plio-pleistocene

    cape-town Repository record

  15. Dietary ecology and niche separation among three closely related species (Parapapio jonesi, Pp. whitei and Pp. broomi) of South African Plio-Pleistocene Cercopithecoidea from Makapansgat Limeworks site

    Fourie, Nicolaas HofmeyerDepartment of Archaeology2006

    Three sympatric, contemporaneous fossil cercopithecoid genera (Cercopithecoides, Parapapio and Theropithecus) are represented in assemblages from the Makapansgat Limeworks hominin locality in South Africa. The presence of such a variety of primate taxa in a single ecosystem at the same time …

    cape-town Repository record

  16. Evolution of the Onion Creek salt diapir and related sediment filled salt-withdrawal basins during the Plio-Pleistocene: analysis of growth strata and progressive unconformities, Grand County, Utah

    Graham, PeterColorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library2010

    Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-88).

    colo-mines Repository record

  17. Geology and Structure of Kodachrome Basin State Reserve and Vicinity, Kane and Garfield Counties, Utah

    Hornbacher, Dwight

    … lies between the Cretaceous and the reserve's Plio-Pleistocene conglomerates. Uplift, due to faulting, allowed the Paria River to erode the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary rocks in the Paria Amphitheater and to deposit Plio-Pleistocene channel and sheet conglomerates.</p> <p>During the …

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  18. ΤΕΧΝΙΚΟΓΕΩΛΟΓΙΚΕΣ ΣΥΝΘΗΚΕΣ ΣΤΟ ΝΟΜΟ ΑΧΑΙΑΣ-ΓΕΩΜΗΧΑΝΙΚΟΙ ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΕΣ ΤΩΝ ΠΛΕΙΟΠΛΕΙΣΤΟΚΑΙΝΙΚΩΝ ΙΖΗΜΑΤΩΝ

    Ρόζος, ΔημήτριοςUniversity of Patras1989

    … AND PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THE PLIO-PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTS FROM THE THREE SEDIMENTATION BASINS (CORINTHIAN, PATRAIKOS AND LEONDION) WERE STUDIED. (SHORTENED)

    greece Repository record

  19. Late Proterozoic bedrock geology and its influence on neogene littoral marine diamondiferous trapsites, MA1-Sperrgebiet, Namibia

    Jacob, JanaDepartment of Geological Sciences2001

    … is present in the form of palaeo-beaches. Six Plio-Pleistocene beaches have been identified lying onshore between the Orange River mouth and Chameis Bay. The Plio-Pleistocene beaches are underlain by Late Proterozoic footwall. The Late-Proterozoic footwall has undergone extensive marine erosion …

    cape-town Repository record

  20. Dating the emergence of the divaricate habit in the New Zealand flora

    Maurin, Kévin Jean LouisThe University of Waikato2021

    … (moa) and (2) a response to frosty and droughty Plio-Pleistocene climates. Observational and experimental evidence, as well as theoretical discussions, have not clearly favoured one over the other. More recently, a synthetic hypothesis involving both climate and browsing has been proposed, but …

    waikato-masters Repository record

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