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1 online resource (400 pages) |
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Developments in quaternary science ; pt. 1 |
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Developments in Quaternary science ; pt. 1.
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| Summary |
This book is the second of three volumes in which the recent knowledge of the extent and chronology of Quaternary glaciations has been compiled on a global scale. This information is seen as a fundamental requirement, not only for the glacial community, but for the wider user-community of general Quaternary workers. In particular the need for accurate ice-front positions is a basic requirement for the rapidly growing field of palaeoclimate modelling. In order to provide the information for the widest-possible range of users in the most accessible form, a series of digital maps was prepared. The glacial limits were mapped in ArcView, the Geographical Information System (GIS) used by the work group. Included with the publication is a CD with digital maps, showing glacial limits, end moraines, ice-dammed lakes, glacier-induced drainage diversions and the locations of key sections through which the glacial limits are defined and dated. The last deglaciation is also shown in 500 year time-steps. The digital maps in this volume cover the USA and Canada and include Greenland and Hawaii. Both overview maps and more detailed maps at a scale 1: 1,000,000 are provided. Also available: Part I: Europe, ISBN 0-444-51462-7 Part III: South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, ISBN 0-444-51593-3. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Developments in Quaternary Science -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Chronology and Extent of Late Cenozoic Ice Sheets in North America: A Magnetostratigraphic Assessment -- References -- Pleistocene Maximum and Late Wisconsinan Glacier Extents Across Alaska, \ U.S.A. -- Introduction -- Spatial Data Compilation -- Previous Reviews of Alaskan Glacial Geology -- Overview of Pleistocene Glaciation in Alaska -- Regional Summaries -- Brooks Range (Fig. 2) -- Seward Peninsula (Fig. 3) -- St Lawrence Island -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta -- Yukon-Koyukuk Region (Fig. 2) -- Blackburn Hills. |
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Yukon Tanana Upland (Fig. 4) -- Kuskokwim Mountains (Fig. 5) -- Ahklun Mountains (Fig. 6) -- Cordilleran Ice Sheet -- Implications -- Acknowledgements -- References -- A Single Continental Glaciation of Rocky Mountain Foothills, South-Western Alberta, Canada -- Introduction -- Setting -- Bedrock Geology -- Topography of the Foothills in Southern Alberta: Ice Movement Implications -- Summary of the Stratigraphy of Glacigenic Sediments Preserved in Buried Pre-Glacial Valleys -- Montane Valley and Piedmont Glacier Sediments -- Unit 1 -- Unit 2 -- Unit 3 -- Unit 4. |
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Continental Ice Sheet (CIS) Advance Sediments: -- Unit 5 -- Unit 6 -- CIS Readvance Sediments -- Unit 7 -- Unit 9 -- Montane Glacier Readvance Sediments -- Unit 8 -- Latest glacial and Holocene -- Unit 10 -- A Single CIS Glaciation of the Foothills of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) Age -- Absolute Dating of Surface Drift Deposits to the LGM -- Subsurface Stratigraphy and a LGM-age for Buried Drift -- References -- The Quaternary Glacial Record of British Columbia, Canada -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Theoretical Ice Sheet Advance and Retreat -- Information is this Report -- Earlier Glaciations. |
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Southern British Columbia -- Northern British Columbia -- Late Wisconsinan Glaciation -- Methods Used to Draw and Correlate Ice front Positions -- Availability and Quality of Data -- Chronological Data -- Timing of Maximum of the Late Wisconsinan Cordilleran Ice Sheet -- Deglaciation -- Items of Special Note -- Conclusions -- References -- Bibliography for Late Wisconsinan Cordilleran Ice Sheet Retreat Maps -- Glaciations of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Background -- Glacial Advances -- Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Glaciations -- MIS 22 to MIS 6 Glaciations. |
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MIS 6 Glaciations -- Late Pleistocene Glaciations -- Post-Tioga Advances -- Discussion -- Summary -- References -- Great Basin of the western United States -- Glaciated Ranges Draining Wholly or Partly into the Great Basin -- References -- Glaciation of the Hawaiian Islands -- References -- Quaternary Glaciations in Illinois -- Introduction -- Historical Review -- Pre-Illinois Episodes -- Illinois Episode -- Wisconsin Episode -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Pre-Wisconsinan Glacial Database and Ice Limits in the Central United States -- Abstract -- Background -- Methodology. |
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Geology, Stratigraphic -- Quaternary.
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Paleoclimatology -- Quaternary.
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Glacial landforms.
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Stratigraphie -- Quaternaire.
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Paléoclimatologie -- Quaternaire.
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Géomorphologie glaciaire.
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glacial landforms.
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Geology, Stratigraphic
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Glacial landforms
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Paleoclimatology
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Quaternary Geologic Period
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| Chronological Term |
From 2 million years ago
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| Added Author |
Ehlers, Jürgen, 1948- Editor.
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Gibbard, Philip L. (Philip Leonard), 1949- Editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0444514627 9780444514622 (DLC) 2006276073 (OCoLC)53962208 |
| ISBN |
9780444515926 |
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0444515925 |
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9780080474076 |
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0080474071 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000048130521 |
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AU@ 000062573829 |
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DEBBG BV039831854 |
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DEBBG BV042309082 |
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DEBSZ 367773724 |
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DEBSZ 430380860 |
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DEBSZ 48243824X |
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NZ1 12435127 |
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