Paleoecology of the Miocene Purple Mountain Flora Nevada
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This fossil flora provides evidence of succession on                       a volcanic field in which a mixed conifer forest is replaced for                a period by a broadleaved schlerophyll vegetation.  The sequence                will be dated using the potassium-argon method and the rates of                 succession compared with modern rates on disturbed areas.  This                 is the first time that gradual replacement of miocene exotic                    hardwood vegetation will have been recorded and dated.  The study               has a relevance to global change.  The general date corresponds                 to a major spread of the Antarctic ice sheet some 15 Ma ago and                 will be the first time that marine changes in the southern oceans               can be correlated to mid-latitude terrestrial changes.  The study               will also test the hypothesis that these fossil floras are                      preserved in situ and have not been transported from elsewhere                  and are the direct, although ancient, ancestors of present-day                  high montane floras.
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