eocene

• “The paleocene-eocene thermal maximum meant big temperature changes.”

  2009 December | Serendipity

• “The Acex research team drilled frozen sedimentary cores from the ocean floor, which can be dated to 55 million years ago, a period known as the palaeocene-eocene thermal maximum (PETM).”

  Arctic Oil And The Abiotic Debate Again « Unambiguously Ambidextrous

• “I mean if i recall correctly there hasntt been primates in NA since eocene and so far we have only bipedal fossil apes found from Africa.”

  Frame 352, and all that

• “No, but he does mention the cooling since the eocene explicitly.”

  Unthreaded « Climate Audit

• “When once there has been a deposit of idea in the calm deep eocene of British rural mind, the impression will outlast any shallow deluge of the noblest education.”

  Erema

• “There is, however, a material disadvantage suffered by those who use the railway, in that they miss the first view of the Cathedral city set in the midst of soft-swelling eocene hills, which comes as the first stage of the gradual unfolding of the tragic story.”

  Beautiful Britain: Canterbury

• “At any rate, many hundreds of thousands of years, some millions of years, have passed by since in the eocene, at the beginning of the tertiary period, we find the traces of an abundant, varied, and highly developed mammalian life on the land masses out of which have grown the continents as we see them to-day.”

  II. Biological Analogies in History

• “Yet if we compare the older reptiles and batrachians, the older fish, the older cephalopods, and the eocene mammals, with the more recent members of the same classes, we must admit that there is truth in the remark.”

  XI. On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings. On the Affinities of Extinct Species to Each Other, and to Living Forms

• “We may therefore conclude that if under a nearly similar climate the eocene inhabitants of the world could be put into competition with the existing inhabitants, the former would be beaten and exterminated by the latter, as would the secondary by the eocene, and the palæozoic by the secondary forms.”

  XI. On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings. On the State of Development of Ancient Compared with Living Forms

• “The remains of your ancestors have been found in the eocene and miocene rocks, away, way north of your home at the present time.”

  Some Summer Days in Iowa

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