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Gingerich, Rates of evolution in Plio-Pleistocene mammals: six case studies, Cambridge University Press 1993.
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There are dissected Plio - Pleistocene nonmarine sediments along the lower, or northeast, margin of the subsection, and small areas of Tertiary (Miocene etc.) marine sediments.
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Gradual declines in rainforest plant species characterize the middle to late Miocene of other areas of Australia, although arid conditions are unknown from the continent prior to the Plio-Pleistocene.
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Pleistocene, and some Plio-Pleistocene, nonmarine deposits and recent alluvium are predominant in this subsection.
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This subsection contains predominantly Miocene and Pliocene marine and Plio-Pleistocene and Pleistocene nonmarine sedimentary rocks.
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There are small areas of dissected Plio-Pleistocene sediments.
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In a few areas, the Franciscan rocks are overlain by a thin veneer of young Plio-Pleistocene shallow marine to fluvial sandstones, mudstones and conglomerates.
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The lakes occur on thin Plio-Pleistocene sediments that overlie the deeply weathered sand and kaolinitic clay of the Miocene Hawthorn Group.
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The oldest of these in South Africa is immediately adjacent to the Lebombo Mountains and appears to be of Plio-Pleistocene age.
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Plio-Pleistocene: Oblique Shortening against the "Big Bend" 4.
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