Pliocene

Primates Since the beginning of time, man has evolved through primate evolution. Each primate has acquired different characteristics over a period of millions of years. The ecosystem has experienced an enormous change in this phase. Most major changes have occurred due to the phenomenon of continental drift. Other such factors are deforestation, natural calamities and, more recently, global warming. These changes have caused primates to become less arboreal and more and more terrestrial. In

mainly four species of lynx: Eurasian lynx, Canada lynx, Iberian lynx and Bobcat, which lives widespread between USA, Canada and Mexico. These species of Lynx are evolved from the Issoire lynx, which lived between Europe and Africa from the late Pliocene until the early Pleistocene. The peculiar morphological characteristics of all Lynx species are to have a short tail and tufts of black hair on the tips of each ear. Moreover, the body color can varies between brown to beige and it is marked with

share a few specific characteristics: They all have interbedded mudstone, siltstones, and very fine-grained sandstones, with abundant shell debris. The Purisima formation was created “about 3 to 7 million years ago during the late Miocene and the Pliocene through a 4 million year period of deposition: The deposited rocks record a shift from deeper offshore conditions (primarily siltstone

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND HIGHLIGHTS: My research primarily involves elucidating the effect of diagenetic recrystallization on metal isotopes (Mg, Ca, and Sr) in marine carbonates and evaluating their reliability as geochemical proxies to reconstruct the paleoclimatic conditions and chemical evolution of seawater through geologic period. Geochemical cycling of Mg on the earth’s surface involves transfer of Mg from continental rocks to the ocean followed by reincorporation of Mg into the lithosphere

It is agreed that the hominid lineage originated in Africa and then dispersed from the continent, but there is still debate as to when this event occurred. There have been several fossil findings in parts of Asia that have been analysed and used to date when the hominid lineage left Africa and travelled into the Asian continent. Some of the most important discoveries have been made in several different locations in Indonesia and China. It is believed that the first hominids to migrate from Africa

to this period. The Cenozoic Era is divided into three periods. Paleogene Period (65-23 million years ago), which consists of the Paleocene, Eocene and Oligocene epochs); Neogene Period (23-2.6 million years ago), which includes the Miocene and Pliocene epochs); Quaternary Period (2.6 million years ago to the present), consisting the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs). The early part of the Cenozoic Period appeared to be warmer than it is today, and the gross weather conditions on the Earth were

Abstract Inverted topography in a different of scales from large scale to fine scale has been observed in numerous localities on Martian surface. Also, Inverted wadis in Western Desert of Egypt in seven sites cover an area of about 26.000 square kilometers, provide us a natural museum for a different of scales, mechanisms of development, and planimetric patterns. Therefore, we carried out field study in four sites of inverted wadis in Gabal El-Na’aloon, east of Baharyia, west of Ghard Abu Moharik

The North Anatolian Fault (NAF) (Fig. 1) in northern Turkey is a significant, seismically active structure (e.g. Barka 1992; Sengor et al. 2005). The NAF is a 1200 km-long dextral strike-slip fault which extends from the town of Karliova in eastern Turkey, paralleling the southern coast of the Black sea, across the Northern Aegean Sea, central and mainland Greece, eventually linking with the Hellenic subduction zone (e.g. Barka 1992; Barka et al. 2000; Sengor et al. 2005). The NAF is part of a larger

Australopithecus ramidus was a hominin species. They dated back to 4.5 to 4.2 million years agosssfffffffffff Australopithecus ramidus represents the oldest species that possesses certain features that create a unequivocal link to the hominin lineage. Both sites from which Ar. ramidus fossils were recovered , every site offers slightly totally different environment reconstructions. At Gona, several massive mammal fauna related to Ar. ramidus are intense grazers, which might indicate a environment

Throughout time, horse morphology has drastically evolved via the mechanism of natural selection which selects for individuals better adapted to their environment. The evolution of horses has been tracked by using fossils which first appeared 55 million years ago during the Eocene (CCLE 2017). Horse morphology seemed to evolve throughout the time periods in response to their changing environments. This becomes evident upon comparing limb, teeth, and skull morphology of the fossilized remains throughout