Quaternary Stratigraphy of North America
Title | Quaternary Stratigraphy of North America PDF eBook |
Author | W. C. Mahaney |
Publisher | Stroudsburg, Pa. : Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross ; [New York] : exclusive distributor, Halsted Press |
Total Pages | 536 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Science |
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Quaternary Stratotypes of North America
Title | Quaternary Stratotypes of North America PDF eBook |
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 |
Quaternary Geology
Title | Quaternary Geology PDF eBook |
Author | D. Q. Bowen |
Publisher | Pergamon |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Geology, Stratigraphic |
ISBN |
The Quaternary of the U.S.
Title | The Quaternary of the U.S. PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Edgar Wright |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 933 |
Release | 2015-12-08 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1400876524 |
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
Title | The Quaternary Period in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | A.R. Gillespie |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Total Pages | 595 |
Release | 2003-12-17 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0080474098 |
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.
Glacial and Quaternary Geology
Title | Glacial and Quaternary Geology PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Foster Flint |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 920 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
"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."
Quaternary and Glacial Geology
Title | Quaternary and Glacial Geology PDF eBook |
Author | Jürgen Ehlers |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 600 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
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.