Everywhere these Miocene islands, etc., bear a flora of true type.
Eocene, Miocene, pliocene Tuff, Lias and Trias and that is enough.
The first took place in the Miocene age, about 800,000 years ago.
The epoch following on after the Eocene is designated as the Miocene.
But this is not the only tree that grew in the Miocene forests of both continents.
Let us now return to the Miocene Age, in which we are to seek for the presence of man.
In the Miocene and Pliocene the oscillations seem to have been slight and partial.
They had a place in the Eocene and Miocene forests of the old world and new.
In the Miocene the stature of the ancestors of the horse increased to that of a pony.
Most of these Radiolarian marls appear to date from the middle Tertiary (Miocene) period, and to be deep-sea formations.
"pertaining to the geological period between the Oligocene and Pliocene," 1831, irregular formation from Greek meion "less" + -cene.
A typical example of the monstrosities with which scientific men in want of a label for something, and indifferent to all beyond their own province, defile the language. The elements of the word are Greek, but not the way they are put together, nor the meaning demanded of the compound. [Fowler]
| Miocene The fourth epoch of the Tertiary Period, from about 24 to 5 million years ago. During this time the climate was warmer than it had been in the Oligocene, and kelp forests and grasslands first developed. With the isolation of Antarctica, a circumpolar ocean current was established in the southern Hemisphere, reducing the amount of mixing of cold polar water and warm equatorial water and causing a buildup of ice sheets in Antarctica. The African-Arabian plate became connected to Asia, closing the seaway which had previously separated Africa from Asia. Mammalian diversity was at its peak. See Chart at geologic time. |
