Author: American Geophysical UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Glacial Geology and Geomorphology of North America
Author: American Geophysical UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Glacial Geology and Geomorphology of North America
Author: Glacial Map of North America; Part 2 Bibliography and Explanatory Notes
Author: Richard Foster FlintPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813720605
Category : Glacial epoch
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology of South America
Author: Chalmers Moyes ClappertonPublisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
This monograph reviews the nature of Quaternary environmental changes over the largest continent in the Southern Hemisphere. Moreover, since South America makes a transect across most climatic belts of an entire hemisphere, it provides a unique opportunity to examine the impact of changing Quaternary climates on a variety of environments. It also forms the basis for judging the synchrony or non-synchrony of Quaternary climatic changes between hemispheres and this has important implications for climatic modelling.As South America has a dynamic tectonic regime along its western margin, 3 chapters discuss the geomorphological impact of Quaternary tectonics and volcanism. The following 6 chapters integrate evidence for Quaternary changes in the great alluvial basins of the Continent Orinoco, Amazon, Paranaacute;) and in the contiguous highland massifs (Guyana, Brazil, Patagonia). As parts of the Andes have been high enough to support glaciers since the late Miocene, 5 chapters review the nature and consequences of Quaternary glacier fluctuations. The following 4 chapters select major process-form systems that impacted the continent during the Quaternary, including geocryogenic activity, palaeolake development, palaeo-gravel formations and coastal changes. Three chapters provide the first major review of Quaternary vegetation changes in South America (primarily the Andes) deduced from palaeoecological data. The final chapter weaves most of the environmental threads together in an overall synthesis of the Quaternary of South America.The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs and line diagrams. As it provides a compendium of data and analyses about Quaternary changes for a whole continent, this book should appeal to a wide range of environmental disciplines.
The Ice Age in North America
Author: George Frederick WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glacial epoch
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Principles of Glacial Geomorphology and Geology
Author: Ireneo Peter MartiniPublisher: Pearson Education
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
For undergraduate-level courses in Glacial Geology and Geomorphology taken by science and non-science students. Featuring an accessible, non-mathematical, but rigorous conceptual treatment with numerous very simple explanatory illustrations this introduction to the basic principles of glaciology, geomorphology, and geology serves as a portal to the more advanced literature in the field and to discussion and research of the local situation. Focusing on processes and history (not just descriptions), it helps students understand how glaciers form and move, what effect they have, when and where they have affected the Earth, and the consequences of ice ages.
GLACIAL GEOLOGY AND THE PLEISTOCENE EPOCH
Author: RICHARD FOSTER FLINTPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Glacial Geology and Geomorphology of North America
Author: North America and Adjacent Oceans During the Last Deglaciation
Author: William F. RuddimanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Ice Age in North America, and Its Bearings Upon the Antiquity of Man
Author: George Frederick WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glacial epoch
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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