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Author : Herbert Edgar Wright
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145290796X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Late Quaternary Environments of the United States written by Herbert Edgar Wright and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. Huntley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940093081X
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Vegetation history written by B. Huntley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The analysis of vegetation history is one of the prime objectives for vegetation scientists. In order to understand the recent composition of local floras and plant communities a second knowledge of species com position during recent millenia is essential. With the present concern over climate changes, due to human activities, an understanding of past vegeta tion distribution becomes even more important, since the correlation between climate and vegetation can often be used to predict possible impacts to crops and forests. I was very fortunate to receive the help of Drs. Webb and Huntley to compile this volume on vegetation history. They have collated an impres sive set of papers which together give an account of the vegetation history of most of the continents during the late-Tertiary and Quaternery periods. There are, however, gaps in the coverage achieved, most notably Africa, and Asia apart from Japan. The information in this book will nonetheless certainly be used widely by vegetation scientists for the regions covered in the book and much of it has relevance to the areas not explicitly described. The authors of the individual chapters have done their best to cover recent topics of interest as well as established facts. It is intended that a separate volume will be produced in the near future covering the vegetation history of Africa and Asia. I thank the editors of It fits well into the this volume for their commendable achievement.
Author : A.R. Gillespie
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080474098
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
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.
Author : William F. Ruddiman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book North America and Adjacent Oceans During the Last Deglaciation written by William F. Ruddiman and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book List of U.S. Geological Survey Geologic and Water-supply Reports and Maps for Alaska written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miriam Jones
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889633373
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)
Download or read book North Pacific Environment and Paleoclimate from the Late Pleistocene to Present written by Miriam Jones and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast area of the North Pacific, spanning ~55˚ longitude, represents a challenge for documenting and understanding the geologic history of ocean, atmosphere, and terrestrial environmental change. Nevertheless, its importance for many issues, including our fundamental understanding of ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns and teleconnections with natural modes of climate variability through time, has led to a steady rise in the numbers of study sites and proxy types. By bringing together a wide range of proxies and timescales that examine the impacts of paleoclimate on ecosystems, water, carbon, and humans, and interactions between marine and terrestrial processes, this Research Topic contributes to an improved understanding of the region’s significance at global, hemispheric, and regional scales.
Author : Vaughn M. Bryant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Pollen Records of Late-Quaternary North American Sediments written by Vaughn M. Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Late Cenozoic History of the Interior Basins of Alaska and the Yukon written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of a cooperative workshop between earth scientists from Canada and the United States of America.
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Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. C. Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521544092
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Post-glacial Vegetation of Canada written by J. C. Ritchie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together all the available information about the complex history of vegetational and environmental change in Canada since the last Ice Age. Professor Ritchie discusses the roles of climactic change, wildfires, diseases, and biological factors in controlling the emerging patterns of new plant growth.
Author : Alan Graham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195344375
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic History of North American Vegetation written by Alan Graham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique and integrated account of the history of North American vegetation and paleoenvironments over the past 70 million years. It includes discussions of the modern plant communities, causal factors for environmental change, biotic response, and methodologies. The history reveals a North American vegetation that is vast, immensely complex, and dynamic.
Author : Karen D. Kelley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1998 written by Karen D. Kelley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Troy Lewis Péwé
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Quaternary Geology of Alaska written by Troy Lewis Péwé and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the glacial, periglacial, eolian, fluvial, lacustrine, marine, and volcanic deposits of Quaternary age in Alaska and Paleoclimatic fluctuations in light of formation and disappearance of glaciers and permafrost and changes in the distribution of plants and animals.
Author : Hugh M. French
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773509259
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Canada's Cold Environments written by Hugh M. French and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Low temperatures, wind-chill, snow, sea ice, and permafrost have been primary characteristics of Canada's northern and alpine environments during the past two million years. The evolution of Canada's cultural landscapes, the processes of settlement of rural areas, and the present interaction of Canadian industrial society with its biophysical environment are all deeply influenced, directly or indirectly, by the frigidity of the greater part of the country. The phenomenon of global warming, if it occurs, will lessen this coldness, but its impact on temperature extremes, sea ice regimes, vegetation, snow distribution, permafrost, glaciers, lakes, rivers, and mountain hazards are all the subject of intensive research -- the highlights of which are reviewed in Canada's Cold Environments. Eleven of Canada's leading geographers, geologists, and ecologists provide an authoritative yet readable scientific statement about the physical nature of Canada's coldness. They focus on the distinctive attributes of Canada's cold environments, their temporal and spatial variability, and the constraints that coldness places on human activity. The book is aimed at environmental scientists at all levels who need informed overviews of the substantive findings on a range of cold-related topics.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Hadleigh West
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226893990
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (939 download)
Download or read book American Beginnings written by Frederick Hadleigh West and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last Ice Age, a thousand-mile-wide land bridge connected Siberia and Alaska, creating the region known as Beringia. Over twelve thousand years ago, a procession of large mammals and the humans who hunted them crossed this bridge to America. Much of the Russian evidence for this migration has until now remained largely inaccessible to American scholars. American Beginnings brings together for the first time in one volume the most up-to-date archaeological and palaeoecological evidence on Beringia from both Russia and America. "An invaluable resource. . . . It will no doubt remain the key reference book for Beringia for many years to come."—Steven Mithen, Journal of Human Evolution "Extraordinary. The fifty-six contributors . . . represent the most prominent American and Russian researchers in the region."—Choice "Publication of this well-illustrated compendium is a great service to early American and especially Siberian Upper Paleolithic archaeology."—Nicholas Saunders, New Scientist "This is a great book . . . perhaps the greatest contribution to the archaeology of Beringia that has yet been published. . . . This is the kind of book to which archaeology should aspire."—Herbert D.G. Maschner, Antiquity
Author : Cary Mock
Publisher : Newnes
ISBN 13 : 0444536426
Total Pages : 3883 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (445 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science written by Cary Mock and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 3883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, Four Volume Set, provides both students and professionals with an up-to-date reference work on this important and highly varied area of research. There are lots of new articles, and many of the articles that appeared in the first edition have been updated to reflect advances in knowledge since 2006, when the original articles were written. The second edition will contain about 375 articles, written by leading experts around the world. This major reference work is richly illustrated with more than 3,000 illustrations, most of them in colour. Research in the Quaternary sciences has advanced greatly in the last 10 years, especially since topics like global climate change, geologic hazards and soil erosion were put high on the political agenda. This second edition builds upon its award-winning predecessor to provide the reader assured quality along with essential updated coverage Contains 357 broad-ranging articles (4310 pages) written at a level that allows undergraduate students to understand the material, while providing active researchers with a ready reference resource for information in the field. Facilitates teaching and learning The first edition was regarded by many as the most significant single overview of Quaternary science ever, yet Editor-in-Chief, Scott Elias, has managed to surpass that in this second edition by securing even more expert reviews whilst retaining his renowned editorial consistency that enables readers to navigates seamlessly from one unfamiliar topic to the next
