Our copy of "Paleaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic Mammals" came to us back in 1999 when we were living in the woods beside Jordan Lake in Chatham County, NC.
Palaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic Mammals
The Hagerman Fossil Beds
A specific example of wilful blindness in popular science (SciPop) is in a work called Paleaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic Mammals, Edited by Kathlyn M. Stewart and Kevin L. Seymore.
Mastodons, Camels, Horses, and Cats
"Mastodons, camels, horses, and cats". Today's passage evokes images of rolling grasslands with herds of camels. Like the remains in fossil deposits assigned to the Pliocene. Which in geological time is the present day.
Extinction of Some Species
"Extinction of some species." Dead bodies buried in sediment from Noah's flood represent entire flocks, herds and populations of animals. If they were the only living members of their species, that's why they're extinct.
Spread of Grasslands
"Climatic changes in temperate latitudes that allowed the spread of grasslands." Grasslands are a habitat type, not a period of time. The remains of them have been preserved as fossils.
Elevation of Andes
"Elevation of the Andes and general continued uplift of continents" doesn't sound like much, does it? We're talking about the formation of the South American continent and the Pacific ocean. Nothing major.
Rapid Evolution
"Rise and rapid evolution of grazing mammals and ape-like creatures." Rapid evolution is an oxymoron. There shouldn't be rapid evolution because of the way that the process of evolution has been envisioned.
Present-day Forest Associations
The description of the Miocene is the same kind of circular reasoning that all of the rest of the geological timescale is built on. If sediment doesn't have an characteristics of the Miocene, it's not assigned to the Miocene.
Climatic Cooling
The wind which came after Noah's flood evaporated the waters and caused global cooling, leading to polar and equatorial glaciation. Evidence of equatorial glaciation is assigned to the Permian.
Continental Uplifts and a Major Orogeny
How do we account for fossils when the fossils are older than the geographic features that they’re part of? “Marked world-wide continental uplifts and a major orogeny resulting in the rise of the Alps.“