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The inferred positions of global paleoshorelines through the 240 million years of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic are presented within this atlas. Thirty-one maps, generally corresponding to stratigraphic stages, provide a snapshot of the continents and their shorelines at approximately 8 million year intervals. The maps provide a representation of the gross changes in the distribution of land and sea throughout the Mesozoic and Cenozoic plotted on Mollweide projection of paleocontinental reconstructions. They do not distinguish between well and poorly defined shorelines, but the information sources are set out in a bibliography numbering more than 2000 primary paleographic references. Work up to 1980 was used in the initial compilations, and the final use additioanl unreferenced and unpublished data up to about 1987.
This a unique global compilation that presentes the first attemt at delineating global shorelines at stage level.
The inferred positions of global paleoshorelines through the 240 million years of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic are presented within this atlas. Thirty-one maps, generally corresponding to stratigraphic stages, provide a snapshot of the continents and their shorelines at approximately 8 million year intervals. The maps provide a representation of the gross changes in the distribution of land and sea throughout the Mesozoic and Cenozoic plotted on Mollweide projection of paleocontinental reconstructions. They do not distinguish between well and poorly defined shorelines, but the information sources are set out in a bibliography numbering more than 2000 primary paleographic references. Work up to 1980 was used in the initial compilations, and the final use additioanl unreferenced and unpublished data up to about 1987.
This a unique global compilation that presentes the first attemt at delineating global shorelines at stage level.