The Last Interglacial-Glacial Transition in North America

The Last Interglacial-Glacial Transition in North America
Author: Peter U. Clark
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0813722705

Focuses on the last time glaciers spread across the continent, using the records of former ice sheets, glaciers, and pluvial lakes to understand the response of North American ice sheets and glaciers to the climate change that ended the last (before ours) interglacial period. The 21 papers, most fro

Geology of North America—An Overview

Geology of North America—An Overview
Author: Albert W. Bally
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Total Pages: 633
Release: 1989
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0813754453

Summaries of the major features of the geology of North America and the adjacent oceanic regions are presented in 20 chapters. Topics covered include concise reviews of current thinking about Precambrian basement, Phanerozoic orogens, cratonic basins, passive-margin geology of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions, marine and terrestrial geology of the Caribbean region and economic geology.

Deglacial History and Relative Sea-level Changes, Northern New England and Adjacent Canada

Deglacial History and Relative Sea-level Changes, Northern New England and Adjacent Canada
Author: Thomas K. Weddle
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2000
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0813723515

The 13 papers in this collection examine the coastal regions, the Gulf of Maine, and the continental shelf off of Atlantic Canada in context with new radiocarbon age analyses, providing a detailed history of climate changes, marine transgression, emergence, and relative sea- level history. Specific topics include deglaciation of the Gulf of Maine, Late Quaternary morphogenesis of a marine-limit delta plain in southwest Maine, morainal banks and the deglaciation of coastal Maine, and glacial dynamics, deglaciation, and marine invasion in southern Quebec. Material originated at a March 1998 symposium held in Maine at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of America. Weddle is affiliated with the Maine Geological Survey. Retelle teaches geology at Bates College. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

Paleoenvironments of Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho, and Its Catchment

Paleoenvironments of Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho, and Its Catchment
Author: Joseph G. Rosenbaum
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2009
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0813724503

Bear Lake is located 100 km northeast of Salt Lake City and lies along the course of the Bear River, the largest river in the Great Basin. The lake, which is one of the oldest extant lakes in North America, occupies a tectonically active half-graben and contains hundreds of meters of Quaternary sediment. This volume is the culmination of more than a decade of coordinated investigations aimed at a holistic understanding of this long-lived alkaline lake in the semiarid western United States. Its 14 chapters, with 20 contributing authors, contain geological, mineralogical, geochemical, paleontological, and limnological studies extending from the drainage basin to the depocenter. The studies span both modern and paleoenvironments, including a 120-m-long sediment core that captures a continuous record of the last two glacial-interglacial cycles.

Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments

Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments
Author: Vivien Gornitz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1062
Release: 2008-10-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1402045514

One of Springer’s Major Reference Works, this book gives the reader a truly global perspective. It is the first major reference work in its field. Paleoclimate topics covered in the encyclopedia give the reader the capability to place the observations of recent global warming in the context of longer-term natural climate fluctuations. Significant elements of the encyclopedia include recent developments in paleoclimate modeling, paleo-ocean circulation, as well as the influence of geological processes and biological feedbacks on global climate change. The encyclopedia gives the reader an entry point into the literature on these and many other groundbreaking topics.

Modern and Past Glacial Environments

Modern and Past Glacial Environments
Author: John Menzies
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2002-01-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780750642262

In combining and revising the two titles Past Glacial Environments and Modern Glacial Environments, Dr Menzies provides a current and comprehensive survey of both the glaciology, geomorphology and sedimentology of glaciers.

The Early Settlement of North America

The Early Settlement of North America
Author: Gary Haynes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2002-11-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521524636

The Early Settlement of North America is an examination of the first recognisable culture in the New World: the Clovis complex. Gary Haynes begins his analysis with a discussion of the archaeology of Clovis fluted points in North America and a review of the history of the research on the topic. He presents and evaluates all the evidence that is now available on the artefacts, the human populations of the time, and the environment, and he examines the adaptation of the early human settlers in North America to the simultaneous disappearance of the mammoths and mastodonts. Haynes offers a compelling re-appraisal of our current state of knowledge about the peopling of this continent and provides a significant new contribution to the debate with his own integrated theory of Clovis, which incorporates vital new biological, ecological, behavioural and archaeological data.

Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic History of North American Vegetation

Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic History of North American Vegetation
Author: Alan Graham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1999-03-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0195344375

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.