Author: Peter M. LacyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Late Quaternary Eolian Sand Dune History of the Central Sands of Wisconsin
Author: Peter M. LacyLate Quaternary Depositional History, Holocene Sea-level Changes, and Vertical Crust Movement, Southern San Francisco Bay, California
Author: Brian F. AtwaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth movements
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publications of the Geological Survey
Author: Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey, 1971-1981
Author: The Quaternary Period in the United States
Author: A.R. GillespiePublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080474098
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
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.
Reconstructing Quaternary Environments
Author: J. John LowePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317753712
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and geochemical data, and includes new data from terrestrial, marine and ice-core records. Dating methods are described and evaluated, while the principles and practices of Quaternary stratigraphy are also discussed. The volume concludes with a new chapter which considers some of the key questions about the nature, causes and consequences of global climatic and environmental change over a range of temporal scales. This synthesis builds on the methods and approaches described earlier in the book to show how a number of exciting ideas that have emerged over the last two decades are providing new insights into the operation of the global earth-ocean-atmosphere system, and are now central to many areas of contemporary Quaternary research. This comprehensive and dynamic textbook is richly illustrated throughout with full-colour figures and photographs. The book will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals in Earth Science, Environmental Science, Physical Geography, Geology, Botany, Zoology, Ecology, Archaeology and Anthropology
Interhemispheric Climate Linkages
Author: Vera MarkgrafPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080525660
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This book presents a novel approach in the field of global change by presenting a comprehensive analysis of interhemispheric linkages of climate, present and past, and their effects on human societies. The ultimate goal of this interhemispheric integration is to improve our understanding of causes and mechanisms of climate change to enhance our capability in predicting future changes. Given the societal interest in global change issues this book offers a new approach for the integration of global information. It will provide a reference for professional scientists, researchers and graduate students in the fields of climatology, and the earth and environmental sciences. - Chapters analyse instrumental atmospheric and oceanic data to address such phenomena as El Nino/Southern Oscillation variability and other climate anomalies such as the Pacific and North Atlantic Oscillation and polar air outbreaks - A new systematic methodology is presented that allows objective and verifiable reconstruction of climate fields from sparse data - Especially valuable in the context of climate proxy data
Inland Dunes of North America
Author: Nicholas LancasterPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030404986
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Inland sand dunes are widespread in North America and are found from the North Slope of Alaska to the Sonoran Desert in northern Mexico and from the Delmarva Peninsula in the east to Southern California in the west. In this edited book, we highlight recent research on areas of inland dunes that span a range from those that are actively accumulating in current conditions of climate and sediment supply to those that were formed in past conditions and are now degraded relict systems. This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of physical geography, geomorphology, environmental sciences, and earth sciences. Contributions include detailed analyses of individual active dune systems at White Sands, New Mexico; Great Sand Dunes, Colorado; and the Laurentian Great Lakes; as well as the vegetation-stabilized dunes of the Nebraska Sand Hills and the Colorado Plateau. Additional chapters discuss the widespread partially vegetated dune systems of the central and southern Great Plains; the relict dunes of the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the eastern USA; and active and stabilized dunes of the Colorado Plateau and the southwestern deserts of the USA and northern Mexico.
Late Quaternary Paleoenvironments and Landscape Evolution on the Great Bend Sand Prairie
Author: Alan F. ArbogastPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Climate Change in Deserts
Author: Martin WilliamsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016916
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
A synthesis of the environmental and climatic history of every major desert and desert margin, for researchers and advanced students.