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- Editors:
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Francis G. Stehli
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University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
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S. David Webb
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The Florida State Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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After the Interchange: The Present View
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Front Matter
Pages 425-425
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- Beryl B. Simpson, John L. Neff
Pages 427-452
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- P. E. Vanzolini, W. Ronald Heyer
Pages 475-487
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Back Matter
Pages 521-532
About this book
Two rather different elements combine to explain the origin of this volume: one scientific and one personal. The broader of the two is the scientific basis-the time for such a volume had arrived. Geology had made remarkable progress toward an understanding of the phys ical history of the Caribbean Basin for the last 100 million years or so. On the biological side, many new discoveries had elucidated the distributional history of terrestrial orga nisms in and between the two Americas. Geological and biological data had been combined to yield the timing of important events with unprecedented resolution. Clearly, when each of two broad disciplines is making notable advances and when each provides new insights for the other, the rewards of cross-disciplinary contacts increase exponentially. The present volume represents an attempt to bring together a group of geologists, paleontologists and biologists capable of exploiting this opportunity through presentation of an interdisciplinary synthesis of evidence and hypothesis concerning interamerican connections during the Cretaceous and Cenozoic. Advances in plate tectonics form the basis for a modern synthesis and, in the broadest terms, dictate the framework within which the past and present distributions of organisms must be interpreted. Any scientific dis cipline must seek tests of its conclusions from data outside of its own confines.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
Francis G. Stehli
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The Florida State Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
S. David Webb
