The Quaternary Period In The United States
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The Quaternary Period In The United States
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Author : A.R. Gillespie
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2003-12-17
The Quaternary Period In The United States written by A.R. Gillespie and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-17 with Science categories.
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.
The Quaternary Of The U S
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Author : Herbert Edgar Wright
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-08
The Quaternary Of The U S written by Herbert Edgar Wright and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-08 with Science categories.
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.
Late Quaternary Environments Of The United States
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Author : Herbert Edgar Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
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Late Quaternary Environments Of The United States
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Author : Herbert E. Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
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United States Contributions To Quaternary Research
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Author : Stanley Alfred Schumm
language : en
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Release Date : 1969
United States Contributions To Quaternary Research written by Stanley Alfred Schumm and has been published by Geological Society of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Geology categories.
Untangling The Quaternary Period
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Author : Richard B. Waitt
language : en
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Release Date : 2021-04-20
Untangling The Quaternary Period written by Richard B. Waitt and has been published by Geological Society of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-20 with Science categories.
"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"--
Quaternary Stratigraphy Of North America
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Author : W. C. Mahaney
language : en
Publisher: Stroudsburg, Pa. : Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross ; [New York] : exclusive distributor, Halsted Press
Release Date : 1976
Quaternary Stratigraphy Of North America written by W. C. Mahaney and has been published by Stroudsburg, Pa. : Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross ; [New York] : exclusive distributor, Halsted Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Science categories.
Soils And Quaternary Geology Of The Southwestern United States
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Author : David L. Weide
language : en
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Release Date : 1985
Soils And Quaternary Geology Of The Southwestern United States written by David L. Weide and has been published by Geological Society of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Science categories.
Late Quaternary Environments Of The United States The Holocene
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Author : Herbert Edgar Wright
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 1984
Late Quaternary Environments Of The United States The Holocene written by Herbert Edgar Wright and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Geology categories.
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Late Quaternary Environments Of The United States
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Author : Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983-12-30
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Late-Quaternary Environments of the United States, Volume 1 was first published in 1983.In the late 1970s American and Russian scientists met twice in conferences on Quaternary paleoclimates sponsored by the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Bilateral Agreement of the Environment. The conferees agreed to prepare volumes summarizing the current status of research in the two countries. Late-Quaternary Environments of the United States provides a two-volume overview of new and significant information on research of the last fifteen years, since the 1965 publication of Quaternary Environments of the United States, edited by H. E. Wright, Jr. and D. G. Frey. The volume on the late Quaternary in the Soviet Union was also by published by the University of Minnesota Press.Volume 1 of Late-Quaternary Environments of the United States covers the Late Pleistocene, the interval between 25,000 and 10,000 years ago - a time of extreme environmental stress as the world passed from full-glacial conditions of the last ice age into the present interglacial age. The interval of geologic time since the last glacial period - termed the Holocene - is the subject of Volume 2. The complexity of natural changes occurring in the late Quaternary, and their interrelationships, make it impossible for a single scientific discipline to encompass them. Thus, the papers in both volumes come from authors in many research fields - geology, ecology, physical geography, archaeology, geochemistry, geophysics, limnology, soil science, paleontology, and climatology. Many of the hypotheses presented - especially on the dynamic Late Pleistocene environments - are still hotly debated and will require additional testing as scientists strive to reconstruct the changing world of the glacial and postglacial ages.