The late Eocene Earth : hothouse, icehouse, and impacts / edited by Christian Koeberl, Alessandro Montanari.

Includes bibliographical references.

Time-scale construction and periodizing in big history: from the Eocene-Oligocene boundary to all of the past / Walter Alvarez, Philippe Claeys, and Alessandro Montanari -- Late Eocene impact craters and impactoclastic layers : an overview / Christian Koeberl -- Late Eocene and late Miocene cosmic dust events : comet showers, asteroid collisions, or lunar impacts? / K.A. Farley -- The late Eocene clinopyroxene-bearing spherule layer : new sites, nature of the strewn field, Ir data, and discovery of coesite and shocked quartz / Shaobin Liu ... [et al.] -- A search for extraterrestrial chromite in the late Eocene Massignano section, central Italy / Birger Schmitz, Anders Cronholm, and Alessandro Montanari -- Stable isotopic response to late Eocene extraterrestrial impacts / Aimee E. Pusz ... [et al.] -- Late Eocene impact-induced climate and hydrological changes : evidence from the Massignano global stratotype section and point (central Italy) / Rodolfo Coccioni, Fabrizio Frontalini, and Silvia Spezzaferri -- Evidence for a change in Milankovitch forcing caused by extraterrestrial events at Massignano, Italy, Eocene-Oligocene boundary GSSP / Rachel E. Brown ... [et al.] -- A critical evaluation of the numerical age of the Eocene-Oligocene boundary / Frits J. Hilgen and Klaudia F. Kuiper -- The late Eocene greenhouse-icehouse transition : observations from the Massignano global stratotype section and point (GSSP) / Luigi Jovane ... [et al.] -- Climate threshold at the Eocene-Oligocene transition : Antarctic ice sheet influence on ocean circulation / Kenneth G. Miller ... [et al.] -- Refined correlation of the UK late Eocene-early Oligocene solent group and timing of its climate history / J.J. Hooker ... [et al.] -- Biostratigraphy and paleoclimatology of the Eocene-Oligocene boundary section at Toadstool Park, northwestern Nebraska, USA / Alessandro Zanazzi, Matthew J. Kohn, and Dennis O. Terry Jr. -- The Australo-Antarctic Gulf and the Auversian facies shift / Brian McGowran -- Nonmarine records of climatic change across the Eocene-Oligocene transition / Nathan D. Sheldon -- Eocene-Oligocene transition paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental record from the Isle of Wight (UK) / Nathan D. Sheldon ... [et al.] -- Eocene-Oligocene greenhouse to icehouse transition on a subtropical clastic shelf : the Jackson-Vicksburg groups of the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain of the United States / Richard H. Fluegeman, Jeffry D. Grigsby, and John V. Hurley -- Reshuffling the cards in the photic zone at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary / Marie-Pierre Aubry and David Bord -- Integrated stratigraphic and astrochronologic calibration of the Eocene-Oligocene transition in the Monte Cagnero section (northeastern Apennines, Italy) : a potential parastratotype for the Massignano global stratotype section and point (GSSP) / Ethan Hyland ... [et al.].