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New horizons for paleontology, with two examples: The rise and fall of the Cretaceous Supertethys and the cause of the modern ice age

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Steven M. Stanley
Steven M. Stanley*
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The Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 69 , Issue 6 , November 1995 , pp. 999 - 1007
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