The Quaternary Period In The United States

Author : A.R. Gillespie
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080474098
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quaternary Period in the United States written by A.R. Gillespie and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003-12-17 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews advances in understanding of the past ca. two million years of Earth history - the Quaternary Period - in the United States. It begins with sections on ice and water - as glaciers, permafrost, oceans, rivers, lakes, and aquifers. Six chapters are devoted to the high-latitude Pleistocene ice sheets, to mountain glaciations of the western United States, and to permafrost studies. Other chapters discuss ice-age lakes, caves, sea-level fluctuations, and riverine landscapes. With a chapter on landscape evolution models, the book turns to essays on geologic processes. Two chapters discuss soils and their responses to climate, and wind-blown sediments. Two more describe volcanoes and earthquakes, and the use of Quaternary geology to understand the hazards they pose. The next part of the book is on plants and animals. Five chapters consider the Quaternary history of vegetation in the United States. Other chapters treat forcing functions and vegetation response at different spatial and temporal scales, the role of fire as a catalyst of vegetation change during rapid climate shifts, and the use of tree rings in inferring age and past hydroclimatic conditions. Three chapters address vertebrate paleontology and the extinctions of large mammals at the end of the last glaciation, beetle assemblages and the inferences they permit about past conditions, and the peopling of North America. A final chapter addresses the numerical modeling of Quaternary climates, and the role paleoclimatic studies and climatic modeling has in predicting future response of the Earth's climate system to the changes we have wrought.

Author : Herbert Edgar Wright
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400876524
Total Pages : 933 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quaternary of the U.S. written by Herbert Edgar Wright and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important volume reviews the status of investigations aimed at deciphering the geologic, biogeographic, and archaeological records for the Quaternary Era—the last million years of geologic time-for the area of continental United States. Over eighty Quaternary scientists have contributed to the fifty-five chapters divided into four main parts. Part 1 treats the areal geology, with emphasis on the stratigraphy of the glaciated areas east of the Rocky Mountains, unglaciated eastern and central United States, and western United States. Part 2 deals with biogeography: phytogeography and palynology, animal geography and evolution. Part 3 deals with archaeology prehistory in the northeastern states, southeastern states, plains, desert west, and Pacific Coast including Alaska. Part 4 covers many diverse Quaternary studies on—the continental shelves, isotope geochemistry, paleopedology, the geochemistry of some lake sediments, paleohydrology, glaciers and climate, volcanic-ash chronology, paleomagnetism, neo-tectonics, dendrochronology, and theoretical paleoclimatology. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Alan R. Gillespie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Quaternary Period in the United States written by Alan R. Gillespie and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard B. Waitt
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813725488
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Untangling the Quaternary Period written by Richard B. Waitt and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume brings together nineteen papers of interdisciplinary Quaternary science honoring Stephen Porter. Special Paper 548 features papers from six continents, on wide-ranging topics including glaciation, paleoecology, landscape evolution, megafloods, and loess. The topical and geographical range of the papers, as well as their interdisciplinary nature, honor Porter's distinct approach to Quaternary science and leadership that influence the field to this day"--

Author : Herbert E. Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608007991
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Late-Quaternary Environments of the United States written by Herbert E. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jamie Woodward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199580693
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ice Age written by Jamie Woodward and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In an era of warming climate, the study of the ice age past is now more important than ever. This book examines the wonders of the Quaternary ice age - to show how ice age landscapes and ecosystems were repeatedly and rapidly transformed as plants, animals, and humans reorganized their worlds." --Publisher.

Author : E.C. Pielou
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226668096
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Ice Age written by E.C. Pielou and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today.

Author : Herbert E. Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608007984
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late-Quaternary Environments of the United States written by Herbert E. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David L. Weide
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813722039
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soils and Quaternary Geology of the Southwestern United States written by David L. Weide and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1985 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Edgar Wright
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145290796X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late Quaternary Environments of the United States written by Herbert Edgar Wright and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: