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The Quaternary Period in the United States - Gillespie, Alan (Editor), and Porter, Stephen C (Editor), and Atwater, Brian F (Editor)
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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 ...

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The Quaternary Period in the United States 2003, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands

ISBN-13: 9780444514714

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