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The Quaternary of the U S
Author | : Herbert Edgar Wright,David G. Frey |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 933 |
Release | : 2015-12-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781400876525 |
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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.
The Quaternary Period in the United States
Author | : A.R. Gillespie,S.C. Porter,B.F. Atwater |
Publsiher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 595 |
Release | : 2003-12-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780080474090 |
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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.
Quaternary Stratigraphy of North America
Author | : W. C. Mahaney |
Publsiher | : Stroudsburg, Pa. : Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross ; [New York] : exclusive distributor, Halsted Press |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015055738184 |
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The Quaternary and Pliocene Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field of Wyoming Idaho and Montana
Author | : Robert L. Christiansen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Electronic government information |
ISBN | : IND:30000080367950 |
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Soils and Quaternary Geology of the Southwestern United States
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Author | : Geological Society of America. Cordilleran Section. Meeting |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : OCLC:1385508473 |
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Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology of South America
Author | : Chalmers Moyes Clapperton |
Publsiher | : Elsevier Science Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 804 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822016445389 |
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This monograph reviews the nature of Quaternary environmental changes over the largest continent in the Southern Hemisphere. Moreover, since South America makes a transect across most climatic belts of an entire hemisphere, it provides a unique opportunity to examine the impact of changing Quaternary climates on a variety of environments. It also forms the basis for judging the synchrony or non-synchrony of Quaternary climatic changes between hemispheres and this has important implications for climatic modelling.As South America has a dynamic tectonic regime along its western margin, 3 chapters discuss the geomorphological impact of Quaternary tectonics and volcanism. The following 6 chapters integrate evidence for Quaternary changes in the great alluvial basins of the Continent Orinoco, Amazon, Paranaacute;) and in the contiguous highland massifs (Guyana, Brazil, Patagonia). As parts of the Andes have been high enough to support glaciers since the late Miocene, 5 chapters review the nature and consequences of Quaternary glacier fluctuations. The following 4 chapters select major process-form systems that impacted the continent during the Quaternary, including geocryogenic activity, palaeolake development, palaeo-gravel formations and coastal changes. Three chapters provide the first major review of Quaternary vegetation changes in South America (primarily the Andes) deduced from palaeoecological data. The final chapter weaves most of the environmental threads together in an overall synthesis of the Quaternary of South America.The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs and line diagrams. As it provides a compendium of data and analyses about Quaternary changes for a whole continent, this book should appeal to a wide range of environmental disciplines.
Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : MINN:31951D00331320T |
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U S Geological Survey Bulletin
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : RUTGERS:39030041192008 |
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