Author: Charles H. Fletcher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Quaternary Coasts of the United States
Author: Charles H. Fletcher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Quaternary Coasts of the United States
Author: Charles H. Fletcher (III, )
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Quaternary of the U. S.
Author: Herbert Edgar Wright
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691624426
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691624426
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Coastal Evolution
Author: R. W. G. Carter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521598903
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A 1995 review of how shorelines have changed since the last Ice Age, and what this implies for future environmental management.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521598903
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A 1995 review of how shorelines have changed since the last Ice Age, and what this implies for future environmental management.
The Quaternary Period in the United States
Author: A.R. Gillespie
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080474098
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080474098
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
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.
Central Atlantic Coastal Plain
Author: International Association for Quaternary Research. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Late Quaternary Sea Levels Along the Atlantic Coast of North America [by] Richard R. Pardi and Walter S. Newman
Author: Richard R. Pardi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
The sea level record of the last 16,000 years for the east coast of North America is presented in a novel fashion so that the entire set of 736 sea level indicators can be assessed at one time. The elevation data is presented as a function of latitude and time.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
The sea level record of the last 16,000 years for the east coast of North America is presented in a novel fashion so that the entire set of 736 sea level indicators can be assessed at one time. The elevation data is presented as a function of latitude and time.
Late Quaternary Coastal Evolution and Sea-level Change, Central Texas Coast
Author: Amy E. Carter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Cenozoic Rocks
Author: Philip B. King
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Quaternary Coastlines and Marine Archaeology
Author: P. M. Masters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Includes papers by G.N. Bailey, N.B. Tindale, and A.J. Barham and D.B. Harris, which have been annotated separtely.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Includes papers by G.N. Bailey, N.B. Tindale, and A.J. Barham and D.B. Harris, which have been annotated separtely.