№ 3,
2006
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Some aspects of vegetation evolution in the Caucasus in Paleocene and Eocene
Institute of Geography named after acad. H.Aliyev of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, AZ1143, Baku, H.Javid av., 115
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In article on the grounds of analysis of the generalized list of fossilized flora is revealed that in Caucasus in early Cenozoic (Paleocene and Eocene), vegetable cover was presented basically, such ecological group to vegetation, as mangrove thickets along coast island, humid evergreen and mixed coniferous-broad-leaved forest. Happen to the main climatic factors of the climate Caucasus under investigation time cell, restored by method of areals. The climatic conditions early Cenozoic Caucasus was close that, which now dominate in tropical belt of the South-East Asia.