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Author | : W. C. Mahaney |
Publisher | : Stroudsburg, Pa. : Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross ; [New York] : exclusive distributor, Halsted Press |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : P. F. Karrow |
Publisher | : Published for the Submission by the Quaternary Sciences Institute, University of Waterloo 1993 |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : 9780969563310 |
Download Quaternary Stratotypes of North America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : D. Q. Bowen |
Publisher | : Pergamon |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Geology, Stratigraphic |
ISBN | : |
Download Quaternary Geology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : A.R. Gillespie |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 595 |
Release | : 2003-12-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0080474098 |
Download The Quaternary Period in the United States Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 |
Total Pages | : 933 |
Release | : 2015-12-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1400876524 |
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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.
Author | : Richard Foster Flint |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 920 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Glacial and Quaternary Geology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This volume contains new materials which include stratigraphy, sea floor stratigraphy and isotopic geochemistry including radiometric dating. The work retains the conjunction of two entities: systematic treatment of "glacial geology" involving process and strategraphic, environmental and historical discussion of the Quaternary."
Author | : Jürgen Ehlers |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Quaternary and Glacial Geology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Quaternary geology is the study of the most recent period of geological time, looking at the Earth in terms of its development as a planet. This books examines the history of its life forms, the materials of which it is made, processes that affect these materials, and products that are formed from them.
Author | : Geological Society of America. Cordilleran Section. Meeting |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : |
Download Soils and Quaternary Geology of the Southwestern United States Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : W.J. Frazier |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 735 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1461317959 |
Download Regional Stratigraphy of North America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An early reviewer of this book stated that he had difficulty assessing its marketability because it "falls between the cracks" of geological literature. We have designed this book to meet a need of modem geology: namely, a single source providing both detailed and synoptic stratigraphy of the various regions of North America, through geological time. Shortly after beginning work on such a book, we realized why it had not yet been written: it required six years of effort, assimilation of an incredible amount of information, and two years' additional work to cut the volume down to publishable size. Further, by the time the final chapter was written, the fIrst few were already out of date. Nevertheless, the book lies in front of you. It is intended to serve several purposes. As a textbook, it will serve the following courses: • Regional stratigraphy • Sedimentary tectonics • Regional tectonics • Advanced historical geology • Survey-level paleontology Obviously, not all portions of the book are relevant to all of the above courses. We assume the reader will retain this book after the particular course is done, and will use it as a reference book. Hopefully, others will obtain the book solely for reference purposes. We believe it will be especially useful for the working geologist or academic geologist seeking generalized and some moderately detailed information about a region or geological time interval which is unfamiliar.
Author | : J. Ehlers |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2004-10-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0080474071 |
Download Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is the second of three volumes in which the recent knowledge of the extent and chronology of Quaternary glaciations has been compiled on a global scale. This information is seen as a fundamental requirement, not only for the glacial community, but for the wider user-community of general Quaternary workers. In particular the need for accurate ice-front positions is a basic requirement for the rapidly growing field of palaeoclimate modelling. In order to provide the information for the widest-possible range of users in the most accessible form, a series of digital maps was prepared. The glacial limits were mapped in ArcView, the Geographical Information System (GIS) used by the work group. Included with the publication is a CD with digital maps, showing glacial limits, end moraines, ice-dammed lakes, glacier-induced drainage diversions and the locations of key sections through which the glacial limits are defined and dated. The last deglaciation is also shown in 500 year time-steps. The digital maps in this volume cover the USA and Canada and include Greenland and Hawaii. Both overview maps and more detailed maps at a scale 1: 1,000,000 are provided. Also available:Part I: Europe, ISBN 0-444-51462-7Part III: South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, ISBN 0-444-51593-3