United States Contributions to Quaternary Research
Author: Stanley Alfred Schumm
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0813721237
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Author: Stanley Alfred Schumm
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0813721237
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Herbert Edgar Wright
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 145290796X
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Irving Smith
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 702
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Ehlers
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2011-06-29
Total Pages: 1127
ISBN-13: 0444535373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book presents an up-to-date, detailed overview of the Quaternary glaciations all over the world, not only with regard to stratigraphy but also with regard to major glacial landforms and the extent of the respective ice sheets. The locations of key sites are included. The information is presented in digital, uniformly prepared maps which can be used in a Geographical Information System (GIS) such as ArcView or ArcGIS. The accompanying text supplies the information on how the data were obtained (geomorphology, geological mapping, air photograph evaluation, satellite imagery), how the features were dated (14C, TL, relative stratigraphy) and how reliable they are supposed to be. All references to the underlying basic publications are included. Where controversial interpretations are possible e.g. in Siberia or Tibet, this is pointed out. As a result, the information on Quaternary glaciations worldwide will be much improved and supplied in a uniform digital format. The information on the glacial limits is compiled in digital form by the coordinators of the project, and is available for download at: http://booksite.elsevier.com/9780444534477/ - Completely updated detailed coverage of worldwide Quaternary glaciations - Information in digital, uniformly prepared maps which can be used in a GIS such as ArcView or ArcGis - Step-by-step guideline how to open and use ArcGis files - Possibility to convert the shapefiles into GoogleEarth kmz-files - Availability of chronological controls
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 1058
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A.R. Gillespie
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2003-12-17
Total Pages: 595
ISBN-13: 0080474098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.