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The Quaternary Period in the United States, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
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The Quaternary Period in the United States, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Series: Developments in Quaternary Science
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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.
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