Quaternary Stratigraphy of North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quaternary Stratigraphy of North America write by W. C. Mahaney. This book was released on 1976. Quaternary Stratigraphy of North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Quaternary Stratigraphy of North America
Quaternary Stratigraphy of North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quaternary Stratigraphy of North America write by . This book was released on . Quaternary Stratigraphy of North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Quaternary Stratotypes of North America
Quaternary Stratotypes of North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quaternary Stratotypes of North America write by P. F. Karrow. This book was released on 1993. Quaternary Stratotypes of North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology of South America
Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology of South America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology of South America write by Chalmers Moyes Clapperton. This book was released on 1993. Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology of South America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Quaternary Period in the United States
The Quaternary Period in the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Quaternary Period in the United States write by A.R. Gillespie. This book was released on 2003-12-17. The Quaternary Period in the United States available 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.
