Size Disparity in Putative Primate Adaptive Radiations and Other Mammalian Clades. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Introduction Adaptive radiation is commonly viewed as the rapid production of phenotypic disparity and taxonomic diversity. Among primates, two clades have been identified as potential adaptive radiations: the lemurs of Madagascar and the platyrrhines of the Americas. This study examines these clades for one of the proposed signals of adaptive
Scott JE.
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Geology of the Northern Simbruini Mts. (Abruzzo – Italy) [PDF]
, 2016 This paper presents the results of a geological mapping project across the northern portion of the Simbruini Mts. (Latium-Abruzzi Domain – Central Apennines), where a thick Cretaceous and Miocene carbonate succession, followed by a thick upper Miocene ...
Fabbi, Simone
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A critical revision of the fossil record, stratigraphy and diversity of the Neogene seal genus Monotherium (Carnivora, Phocidae) [PDF]
, 2018 Historically, Monotherium had been one of the few genera of extinct Phocidae (true seals) that served as a wastebin taxon. Consequently, it did neither aid in understanding phylogenetic relationships of extinct Phocidae, nor in understanding seal ...
Dewaele, Leonard +2 more
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The Tortonian fish fauna of Gavdos Island (Greece)
Comptes Rendus Palevol, 2005 Although the occurrence of fossil fishes is known since more than one century in the Neogene of Gavdos Island (Greece), its composition remained hitherto unknown. The present study demonstrates that, in the Tortonian of Gavdos, the most abundant species is Bregmaceros albyi (Sauvage), which constitutes two thirds of the collected material.
Gaudant, J. +4 more
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Tectonic denudation and topographic development in the Spanish Sierra Nevada [PDF]
, 2007 The denudation history of the rapidly uplifting western part of the Spanish Sierra Nevada was assessed using apatite fission track (AFT) ages and 10Be analyses of bedrock and fluvial sediments.
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A new vertebrate continental assemblage from the Tortonian of Venezuela [PDF]
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2018 A wide variety of aquatic vertebrates from fluvio-lacustrine facies of northern South America (Colombia and Venezuela) have been used as unequivocal evidence to support hydrographic connections between western Amazonia and the Proto-Caribbean Sea during the Miocene.
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Fingerprinting stress: stylolite and calcite twinning paleopiezometry revealing the complexity of progressive stress patterns during folding-the case of the Monte Nero anticline in the Apennines, Italy [PDF]
, 2016 In this study we show for the first time how quantitative stress estimates can be derived by combining calcite twinning and stylolite roughness stress fingerprinting techniques in a fold-and-thrust belt.
Aharonov, Einat +6 more
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Palaeomagnetism and rock magnetism of the Tortonian-Messinian boundary stratotype at Falconara, Sicily [PDF]
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 1992 Langereis, C.G. and Dekkers, MJ., 1992. Palaeomagnetism and rock magnetism of the Tortonian—Messinian boundary stratotype at Falconara, Sicily. Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 71: 100—111. The Tortonian—Messinian boundary stratotype at Stazione Falconara (Sicily) yields normal polarity remanent magnetizations of post-tilting age, implying that the entire ...
Langereis, C.G., Dekkers, M.J.
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Rock mass characterization coupled with seismic noise measurements to analyze the unstable cliff slope of the Selmun Promontory (Malta) [PDF]
, 2017 In the Mediterranean area, cliff slopes represent widespread high-risk landforms as they are highly frequented touristic places often interested by landslide processes.
D’Amico, Sebastiano +3 more
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Post-failure evolution analysis of a rainfall-triggered landslide by multi-temporal interferometry SAR approaches integrated with geotechnical analysis [PDF]
, 2017 Persistent Scatterers Interferometry (PSI) represents one of the most powerful techniques for Earth's surface deformation processes' monitoring, especially for long-term evolution phenomena.
Calcaterra, Domenico +9 more
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