Tertiary environmental changes along the south-western African coast

• Main Author: Coetzee, J. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research 1980
• Subjects: cimatic change; Tertiary; Africa; Antarctic; Kennett; Shackleton; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16312

Main article Evidence for major vegetation and climatic changes during the Tertiary in the south-western Cape has been obtained from a number of sites. The palynomorph assemblages indicate in general an alternation of relatively cool temperate forests with two periods of subtropical - tropical palm-...