Late glacial and postglacial environmental changes : Quaternary, Carboniferous-Permian, and Proterozoic /
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. |
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| Description: | xii, 343 p. : ill., maps (1 col.) ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2600315 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. The Quaternary: The Last Glaciation and Deglaciation
- 2. Northern Hemisphere (Laurentide) Deglaciation: Processes andResponses of Ice Sheet/Ocean Interactions
- 3. The Last Scandinavian Ice Sheet and its Down-Wasting
- 4. Environment and CLimate of Sartan Maximum and the LateGlacial in Siberia
- 5. Termination of the Pleistocene and Holocene Changewsin South America and Other Glaciated Parts of the Southern Hemisphere
- Part II. The Quaternary--Macro-Processes
- 6. Sediment Deformation Beneath the Laurentide Ice Sheet
- 7. Megafloods and Glaciation
- Part III. The Permo-Carboniferous--A Paleogeographic Reconstruction
- 8. Permian WorldTopography and Climate
- Part IV. The Permo-Carboniferous--The Distribution and Effect of the MajorGlaciers of Gondwana
- 9. Glacial-Postglacial Transition in the LatePaleozoic Basins of Southern South America
- 10. A Review of the Permo-Carboniferous Glaciation of Africa
- 11. Transition from Freezing to SubtropicalClimates in the Permo-Carboniferous of Afro-Arabia and India
- 12. Permian Postglacial Environments of the Australian Plate
- 13. Upper Paleozoic Glacialand Postglacial Deposits, Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica
- 14. Some Problems of the Permian (Asselian) Glaciation and theSubsequent Climate in the Permian
- Part V. An Older, Precambrian Glaciation--A Comparative Analysis
- 15. Tectonic and Glacio-Eustatic Controls on PostglacialStratigraphy: Proterozoic Examples
- Part VI. Quaternary and Permo-Carboniferous Terrestrial Weathering and OrganicDeposits
- 16. Interpreting Glacial Climate from Detrital Minerals inSediments
- 17. Paleosols of the Northern Part of North America: TheirFeatures and Significance as Indicators of Past Climates
- 18. Cold Temperate Peats and Coals: Their Sedimentology andComposition
- 19. Recent Cold Climate Peats of Central Canada andPermo-Carboniferous Coals of Gondwana
