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1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Developments in Quaternary science, 1571-0866 ; 3 |
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Developments in Quaternary science ; 3. 1571-0866
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-234) and index. |
| Contents |
Backdrop of botanical exploration -- Physical setting -- Climate -- Glaciation -- Land-sea level relations -- Volcanism -- Vegetation -- Man, megafauna, and fire -- Research methods : approach to the problem of paleoenvironmental reconstruction -- Pollen fallout reflective of vegetation during latest centuries : presettlement and settlement -- Paleoecological sites, cores, and pollen diagrams -- Ice age Southern Andes -- Global connections. |
| Summary |
The Southern Andes, stretching from the subtropics to the subantarctic, are ideally located for palaeoenvironmental research. Over the broad and continuous latitudinal extent of the cordillera ( -24°), vegetation is adjusted to climatic gradients and atmospheric circulation patterns. Opposed to the prevailing Southern Westerlies, the Southern Andes are positioned to receive the brunt of the winds, while biota are set to record the shifting of incoming storm systems over time. Sequential, latitudinally-placed, sedimentary deposits containing microfossils and macroremains, as archives of past vegetation and climate, make possible the detection of equatorward and poleward displacement of plant communities and, as a consequence, changes in climatic controls. No terrestrial setting in the Southern Hemisphere is so unique for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction during and since the last ice age. Twenty radiocarbon-dated fossil pollen and spore records chosen to place emphasis on the last ice age include high-resolution, submillennial data sets that also cover the Holocene, thus providing contrast between present interglacial and past glacial ages. From a refined data base, the records constitute the foundation for interpreting factors responsible for vegetation change over>50,000 ¹4C years, glacial-interglacial migration and refugial patterns for a diversity of taxa, and the extent of intrahemispheric and polar hemispheric synchroneity versus asynchroneity. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Paleoecology -- Pleistocene.
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Paleoecology -- Argentina.
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Paleoecology -- Chile.
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Paleoecology -- Andes Region.
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Glacial epoch -- Argentina.
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Glacial epoch -- Chile.
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Glacial epoch -- Andes Region.
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Paléoécologie -- Pléistocène.
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Paléoécologie -- Argentine.
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Paléoécologie -- Chili.
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Époque glaciaire -- Argentine.
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Époque glaciaire -- Chili.
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NATURE -- Fossils.
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NATURE -- Animals -- Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures.
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SCIENCE -- Paleontology.
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Glacial epoch. (OCoLC)fst00942963
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Paleoecology. (OCoLC)fst01051384
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Pleistocene Geologic Epoch. (OCoLC)fst01353983
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Andes Region. (OCoLC)fst01241744
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Argentina. (OCoLC)fst01205614
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Chile. (OCoLC)fst01205362
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Paleoecologia -- Andes.
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Pleistoceno -- Andes.
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| Chronological Term |
From 10 thousand to 2 million years ago
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Heusser, Calvin J. Ice age southern Andes. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2003 0444514783 9780444514783 (DLC) 2003049356 (OCoLC)52876938 |
| ISBN |
9780444514783 |
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0444514783 |
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9780080534381 (electronic bk.) |
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0080534384 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000048129639 |
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AU@ 000062576748 |
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DEBBG BV039831794 |
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DEBBG BV042309039 |
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DEBSZ 367773147 |
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DEBSZ 48243760X |
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NZ1 12433174 |
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NZ1 15191575 |
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