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.
The Quaternary of the U.S.
The Quaternary of the U.S. - 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 of the U.S. write by Herbert Edgar Wright. This book was released on 2015-12-08. The Quaternary of the U.S. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
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 Alan R. Gillespie. This book was released on 2004. The Quaternary Period in the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Untangling the Quaternary Period
Untangling the Quaternary Period - 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 Untangling the Quaternary Period write by Richard B. Waitt. This book was released on 2021-04-20. Untangling the Quaternary Period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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"--
The Ice Age
The Ice Age - 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 Ice Age write by Jamie Woodward. This book was released on 2014. The Ice Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
