Author: Arthur H. Harris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780598029980
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Late Pleistocene Vertebrate Paleoecology of the West
Author: Arthur H. Harris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780598029980
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780598029980
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Late Pleistocene Vertebrate Paleoecology of the West
Author: Arthur H. Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Vertebrate Paleontology in New Mexico
Author: Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Packrat Middens
Author: Julio L. Betancourt
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816547157
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Over the past thirty years, late Quaternary environments in the arid interior of western North America have been revealed by a unique source of fossils: well-preserved fragments of plants and animals accumulated locally by packrats and quite often encased, amberlike, in large masses of crystallized urine. These packrat middens are ubiquitous in caves and rock crevices throughout the arid West, where they can lie preserved for tens of thousands of years. More than a thousand of these deposits have been dated and analyzed, and middens have supplanted pollen records as a touchstone for studying vegetation dynamics and climatic change in radiocarbon time (the last 40,000 years). Now, similar deposits made by other mammals like hyraxes are being reported from other parts of the world. This book brings together the findings and views of many of the researchers investigating fossil middens in the United States, Mexico, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia. The contributions serve to open a forum for methodological concerns, update the fossil record of various geographic regions, introduce new applications, and display the vast potential for fossil midden analysis in arid regions worldwide. The findings presented here will serve to foster regional research and to promote general studies devoted to global climate change. Included in the text are more than two hundred charts, photographs, and maps.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816547157
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Over the past thirty years, late Quaternary environments in the arid interior of western North America have been revealed by a unique source of fossils: well-preserved fragments of plants and animals accumulated locally by packrats and quite often encased, amberlike, in large masses of crystallized urine. These packrat middens are ubiquitous in caves and rock crevices throughout the arid West, where they can lie preserved for tens of thousands of years. More than a thousand of these deposits have been dated and analyzed, and middens have supplanted pollen records as a touchstone for studying vegetation dynamics and climatic change in radiocarbon time (the last 40,000 years). Now, similar deposits made by other mammals like hyraxes are being reported from other parts of the world. This book brings together the findings and views of many of the researchers investigating fossil middens in the United States, Mexico, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia. The contributions serve to open a forum for methodological concerns, update the fossil record of various geographic regions, introduce new applications, and display the vast potential for fossil midden analysis in arid regions worldwide. The findings presented here will serve to foster regional research and to promote general studies devoted to global climate change. Included in the text are more than two hundred charts, photographs, and maps.
LATE CENOZOIC VERTEBRATES FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST: A TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR H. HARRIS
Author: Gary S. Morgan
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Vertebrate Paleontology in Arizona
Author: Andrew B. Heckert
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Animals, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Animals, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Proceedings of the Third Annual Fossils of Arizona Symposium, November 18, 1995
Author: Mesa Southwest Museum
Publisher: American Traveler Press
ISBN: 9780935810615
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Original research, survey/review work, initial reports and other information on fossils from Arizona. Topics include paleobotany, geology, paleontology, and paleoecology. Originally presented at the 1995 Symposium held at the Mesa Southwest Museum.
Publisher: American Traveler Press
ISBN: 9780935810615
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Original research, survey/review work, initial reports and other information on fossils from Arizona. Topics include paleobotany, geology, paleontology, and paleoecology. Originally presented at the 1995 Symposium held at the Mesa Southwest Museum.
Wolves for Yellowstone?: Research and analysis
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal introduction
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal introduction
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
The Argonautika
Author: Apollonios Rhodios
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520253933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
"Green turns his formidable classical learning and his finely nuanced sense of English verse to bear on the challenge of restoring Apollonios to his true place—on a par with the best modern poetic versions of Homer and Virgil."—Robert Fagles
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520253933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
"Green turns his formidable classical learning and his finely nuanced sense of English verse to bear on the challenge of restoring Apollonios to his true place—on a par with the best modern poetic versions of Homer and Virgil."—Robert Fagles
The Eternal Frontier
Author: Tim Flannery
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802191096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A comprehensive history of the continent, “full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America’s geology, climate, and paleontology” (The Washington Post Book World). Here, “the rock star of modern science” tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago to the present day (Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel). Flannery describes the development of North America’s deciduous forests and other flora, and tracks the migrations of various animals to and from Europe, Asia, and South America, showing how plant and animal species have either adapted or become extinct. The story spans the massive changes wrought by the ice ages and the coming of the Native Americans. It continues right up to the present, covering the deforestation of the Northeast, the decimation of the buffalo, and other consequences of frontier settlement and the industrial development of the United States. This is science writing at its very best—both an engrossing narrative and a scholarly trove of information that “will forever change your perspective on the North American continent” (The New York Review of Books).
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802191096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A comprehensive history of the continent, “full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America’s geology, climate, and paleontology” (The Washington Post Book World). Here, “the rock star of modern science” tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago to the present day (Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel). Flannery describes the development of North America’s deciduous forests and other flora, and tracks the migrations of various animals to and from Europe, Asia, and South America, showing how plant and animal species have either adapted or become extinct. The story spans the massive changes wrought by the ice ages and the coming of the Native Americans. It continues right up to the present, covering the deforestation of the Northeast, the decimation of the buffalo, and other consequences of frontier settlement and the industrial development of the United States. This is science writing at its very best—both an engrossing narrative and a scholarly trove of information that “will forever change your perspective on the North American continent” (The New York Review of Books).