Download or read book The Quaternary of the U S written by Herbert Edgar Wright and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Quaternary Period in the United States written by A.R. Gillespie and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003-12-17 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Quaternary of the United States written by Asociación Internacional para el Estudio del Cuaternario. Congreso Internacional and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Soils and Quaternary Geology of the Southwestern United States written by Geological Society of America. Cordilleran Section. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Quaternary Stratigraphy of North America written by W. C. Mahaney and published by Stroudsburg, Pa. : Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross ; [New York] : exclusive distributor, Halsted Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Quaternary of the United States written by H. E. Wright (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Quaternary of the United States written by International Association for Quaternary Research and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Quaternary Geology of the United States written by Don J. Easterbrook and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2003 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Quaternary of the United States written by Herbert Edgar Wright (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Glacial and Quaternary Geology written by Richard Foster Flint and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1971 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."

Download or read book The Quaternary Period in the United States written by Alan R. Gillespie and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Soils and Quaternary Geology of the Southwestern United States written by David L. Weide and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1985 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Late Quaternary Environments of the United States written by Herbert E. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Quaternary of the United States A Review Volume for the VII Congress of the International Association for Quaternary Research H E Wright and David G Frey Editors written by David Grove FREY and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: