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Eocene: Geography & Regions

The Eocene (IPA: /ˈiːəsiːn, ˈiːoʊ-/ EE-ə-seen, EE-oh-) is a geological epoch that began about 56 million years ago (Ma). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The end point of the Eocene is the Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT), between 33.9 and 33.4 Ma. Precise boundaries between the epochs are sometimes given at…

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Eocene topic overview

The analysis highlights Geography and Regions as prominent areas in the source structure around Eocene.

Related topics
279
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
287
Extracted relationships
279
Concept neighborhoods
45
Bridge connections
287

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 131 topics
Climate · 43 topics
Flora · 37 topics
Palaeogeography and tectonics · 25 topics
Fauna · 17 topics
Geology · 16 topics
Etymology · 10 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Celestial body
Earth
Chronological unit
Epoch
Lower boundary definition
Strong negative anomaly in δ13C values at the PETM
Lower GSSP ratified
2003
Name formality
Formal
Regional usage
Global (ICS)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Etymology

Geology

Palaeogeography and tectonics

Climate

Flora

Fauna

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Eocene connects Entity context

The extracted context around Eocene shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Eocene → An, Another, Antarctic, Antarctica, Arctic Ocean, Asia, Assuming, At, Australia, Azolla Event, Bartonian, Cenozoic, Compared, Cooling, During, Early, EECO, Fushun Basin, Global, Himalayas Another extracted example is Eocene → After, Ancient Greek, Austrian, British, Cenozoic, Cenozoic Era, Charles Lyell, Europe, Holocene, ICS, In, International Commission, John Phillips, Miocene, Moritz Hörnes, Neogene, New Pliocene, Oligocene, Paleocene, Paleogene. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Eocene

Top relations

related to Middle Eocene · 48
Eocene → An, Another, Antarctic, Antarctica, Arctic Ocean, Asia, Assuming, At, Australia, Azolla Event, Bartonian, Cenozoic, Compared, Cooling, During, Early, EECO, Fushun Basin, Global, Himalayas
related to Etymology · 28
Eocene → After, Ancient Greek, Austrian, British, Cenozoic, Cenozoic Era, Charles Lyell, Europe, Holocene, ICS, In, International Commission, John Phillips, Miocene, Moritz Hörnes, Neogene, New Pliocene, Oligocene, Paleocene, Paleogene
related to Stratigraphy · 26
Eocene → Angoonian, Bartonian, Early Eocene, Early Oligocene, Eocene-Oligocene, Franklinian, Fultonian, Gregory Retallack, Jack Wolfe, King County, Kummerian, Late, Lutetian, Ma, Middle Eocene, Mya, Oligocene, Priabonian Stage, Puget Group, Ravenian
related to Flora · 20
Eocene → Africa, Alaska, Arctic, Central America, China, During, Earth, Ellesmere Island, Europe, Even, Fossils, Greenland, India, North America, Paratropical, Polar, Russia, South America, South-east Asia, Tropical
related to Late Eocene · 20
Eocene → Along, Another, Antarctic, Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Asia, At, Cooling, Drake Passage, During, East Asia, Eocene-Oligocene, For Drake Passage, Ma, MECO, MLEC, Multiple, North Atlantic, Oligocene, Solar, The
related to Early Eocene · 19
Eocene → Arctic Ocean, As, At, Biogenic, During, Earth's, Eocene Epoch, For, Greenhouse, If, Ma, Methane, Most, North Atlantic, Other, PETM, The, This, Water
related to Arthropods · 17
Eocene → Baltic, Baltic Sea, Bembridge Marls, Denmark, England, For, France, Fur Formation, Harpactocarcinus, Insects, Isle, Ostracods, Paris Basin, Platypleurin, Plecia, Several, Wight
related to Climate · 16
Eocene → Antarctic, Because, Cenozoic Era, During, Early Triassic, Earth, Eocene Optimum, Eocene Thermal Maximum, Following, Ma, Oligocene, Paleocene, Permian-Triassic, PETM, The, The Eocene
related to External links · 15
Eocene → CanadaBasilosaurus Primitive Eocene WhalesBasilosaurus, Deep Time, Detailed, Ellesmere Island, Eocene EarthEocene Microfossils, Eocene Epoch, EoceneEocene, ForaminiferaEocene Epoch, Forest Project, In Encyclopædia Britannica, Oligocene FossilsThe UPenn Fossil, PaleoMap ProjectPaleos Eocene, Retrieved, Tertiary Western North AmericaMap, The
related to Palaeogeography and tectonics · 14
Eocene → Antarctic, Antarctica, At, Australia, During, Europe, Greenland, However, Laurasia, Ma, North America, Once, The, When Australia

Important terminology

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Important terminology

carbon dioxide early ma climate temperatures warming north methane time cooling epoch polar end ocean period stratospheric temperature oligocene america

Eocene relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 279 structured relationships around Eocene. Examples in this analysis include Eocene → Celestial body → Earth and Eocene → Chronological unit → Epoch. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
EoceneCelestial bodyEarth1.00infobox
EoceneChronological unitEpoch1.00infobox
EoceneLower boundary definitionStrong negative anomaly in δ13C values at the PETM1.00infobox
EoceneLower boundary GSSPDababiya section, Luxor, Egypt .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-o…1.00infobox
EoceneLower GSSP ratified20031.00infobox
EoceneName formalityFormal1.00infobox
EoceneRegional usageGlobal (ICS)1.00infobox
EoceneStratigraphic unitSeries1.00infobox
EoceneTime scale(s) usedICS Time Scale1.00infobox
EoceneTime span formalityFormal1.00infobox
EoceneUpper boundary definitionLAD of Planktonic Foraminifers Hantkenina and Cribrohantkenina [es]1.00infobox
EoceneUpper boundary GSSPMassignano quarry section, Massignano [sh], Ancona, Italy 43°31′58″N 13°36′04″E / 43.5328°N 13.6011°E / 43.5328; 13.60111.00infobox
EoceneUpper GSSP ratified19921.00infobox
Eoceneis aEocene-Oligocene transition0.90text
Eoceneis adynamic epoch that represents global climatic transitions between two climatic extremes0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Eocene bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Early, Oligocene and Climate. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Eocene
    • Early
    • Oligocene
    • Climate
    • Carbon
    • Epoch
    • End
    • Ma
    • Dioxide
    • Known
    • Period
    • Time
    • North
  • eocene
    • Early
    • Oligocene
    • Climate
    • Carbon
    • Epoch
    • End
    • Ma
    • Dioxide
    • Known
    • Period
    • Time
    • North
  • carbon isotope
    • Dioxide
    • Atmospheric
    • Atmosphere
    • Methane
    • Ocean
    • Event
    • Due
    • Cooling
    • Eocene
    • Temperature
    • Warming
    • Also
  • eocene–oligocene extinction event
    • Early
    • Oligocene
    • Climate
    • Around
    • Warming
    • Known
    • Due
    • Atmospheric
    • Dioxide
    • Carbon
    • Epoch
    • End
  • brief period during the early eocene
    • Early
    • Eocene
    • Time
    • Ice
    • Oligocene
    • Climate
    • Known
    • Methane
    • Poles
    • Carbon
    • Epoch
    • End
  • paleocene–eocene thermal maximum
    • Early
    • Oligocene
    • Climate
    • Carbon
    • Epoch
    • End
    • Ma
    • Dioxide
    • Known
    • Period
    • Time
    • North
  • early eocene climatic optimum
    • Early
    • Eocene
    • Oligocene
    • Climate
    • Methane
    • Carbon
    • Epoch
    • End
    • Ma
    • Dioxide
    • Known
    • Would
  • middle eocene climatic optimum
    • Early
    • Oligocene
    • Climate
    • Carbon
    • Epoch
    • End
    • Ma
    • Dioxide
    • Known
    • Period
    • Time
    • North

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Eocene, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Eocene with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
EoceneOverview · splits 156 ⟂ 132
EoceneClimate · splits 243 ⟂ 45
EoceneFlora · splits 250 ⟂ 38
EocenePalaeogeography and tectonics · splits 262 ⟂ 26
EoceneFauna · splits 270 ⟂ 18
EoceneGeology · splits 271 ⟂ 17
EoceneEtymology · splits 277 ⟂ 11

Map overview Semantic statistics

Eocene

Nodes288
Edges287
Triples279
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.006944
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Eocene to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Geography & Regions, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Eocene · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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