1. The modem phase of orogeny began in the Miocene with volcanism and the further emplacement of granite intrusions.

2. North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene; much earlier and less specialized than members of the genus Smiledon.

3. Cretaceous structures are commonly overlain by Miocene channel and turbidite sands that are also draped across underlying highs.

4. Miocene formations ( better: strata ) are well - exposed in this area.

5. The apes arose and diversified during the Miocene epoch, becoming widespread in the Old World.

6. Since the middle Miocene, the South China Sea had subducted beneath the Philippine Sea Plate along the Manila Trench, and the subduction prism came into being.

7. The Oligo- Miocene paleoclimate and tectonic evolution of the Wuyu Basin has displayed its significance for understanding the early uplift of the Tibetan Plateau.

8. Great Barrier Reef was formed in the Miocene period, 2500 years have elapsed since the historical.

9. Those correspond to Quaternary , Pliocene , Upper Miocene, Lower Miocene and Eocene respectively.

10. Three living dolphin groups have a record that extends back to about the late Miocene period some 11 million years ago.

11. The thickening of the crust beneath the Cordillera Blanca was by magmatic accretion since the Miocene.

12. A large extinct ground sloth of the family Megatheriidae of the Miocene Epoch through the Epoch.

13. Eocene through lower Oligocene lacustrine shales and Oligocene through lower Miocene lacustrine and deltaic coaly shales are the mature source rocks.

14. The island is of volcanic origin, made of basaltic tuff and lava dating from the Miocene epoch.

15. There are four hydrocarbon source rocks, Palaeocene, Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene.

16. The faulting might be attributed to the ascending lower crust-derived fluids after the Late Miocene epoch.

17. It peaked in the Oligocene Epoch around 34 million years ago in Eurasia, and again in the Miocene Epoch about 10 million years ago in Eurasia and Africa.

18. Zhou B. X. , Shi M. Z. , 1978, A skull of Lagomeryx from Middle Miocene of Linchu, Shantung. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 16 (2): 111-122. (In Chinese with English abstract.

19. Louis de Bonis from Poitiers University and colleagues add two new sabretooth species to the growing list of carnivores that stalked this region of central Africa in late Miocene times.

20. Ma, and lakes and top lacustrine deposits of Wudaoliang Group became base surface for erosion and peneplanation since Late Miocene, which formed planation surface or peneplain of the Tibetan Plateau.

21. One extinct hamster of Cricetus , for example, lived in North Africa during the Middle Miocene, but the only extant member of that genus is the common hamster of Eurasia.

22. The Amazon dolphin, Inia geoffrensis, parted company with its oceanic ancestors about 15 million years ago, during the Miocene epoch.

23. This thesis researched some fossil fruits of Trapa L. which were found in the Miocene of second deposition layer of the Shengxian Formation, Ninghai, Zhejiang Province.

24. The middle Jurassic Yeba formation volcanics, Paleocene biotite granite porphyry, Miocene quartz monzonite and Oligocene granite porphyry could be found in the ore field.

25. The main hydrocarbon source rocks for the basins lacustrineplain sediments from Oligocene to Middle Miocene.

26. Analyses and researches systematically the facies and depositional environment of Miocene Epoch Wudaoliang Group in Hoh Xil basin in hinterland of the Tibet Plateau .

27. One of the most noticeable features of the Middle Miocene rock layers was their periodicity.

28. Miocene mammalian footprints have been recently identified from several Late Miocene localities in Iran.