The Quaternary of the U.S. / / Herbert Edgar Wright, David G. Frey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Wright, Herbert Edgar,; Frey, David G.,
• MitwirkendeR: Auffenberg, Walter,; Baumhoff, Martin A.,; Bayne, C.K.,; Bernard, Hugh A.,; Birman, J. H.,; Black, Robert P.,; Brent Dalrymple, G.,; Broecker, Wallace S.,; Byron Leonard, A.,; Cooley, Maurice E.,; Cox, Allan,; Crandell, Dwight R.,; Curray, Joseph R.,; Cushing, Edward J.,; Davis, Margaret B.,; Deevey, Edward S.,; Doell, Richard R.,; Dreeszen, V.H.,; Dreimanis, Aleksis,; Flint, Richard Foster,; Forsyth, Jane L.,; Frank Blair, W.,; Frey, David G.,; Fritts, Harold C.,; Frye, John C.,; Fryxell, Roald,; Giddings, J.L.,; Goldthwait, Richard P.,; Griffin, James B.,; Guilday, J. E.,; Hartshorn, J.H.,; Heizer, Robert F.,; Heusser, Calvin J.,; Hibbard, C. W.,; Hopkins, David M.,; Johnson, Albert W.,; Judson, Sheldon,; Karrow, Paul F.,; King, Philip B.,; Kottlowski, Frank Ε.,; Laird, W.M.,; Leblanc, Rufus J.,; Lemke, R.W.,; Lindvall, R.M.,; Malde, Harold E.,; Martin, Paul S.,; Mehringer, Peter J.,; Meier, Mark F.,; Meighan, Clement W.,; Miller, Robert Rush,; Milstead, William W.,; Morrison, Roger B.,; Muller, Ernest H.,; Murray Mitchell, J.,; Neff, George E.,; Packer, John G.,; Péwé, Troy L.,; Ray, D. E.,; Reed, E. C.,; Reese, Gerd,; Richards, Horace G.,; Richmond, Gerald M.,; Ross, Herbert H.,; Ruhe, R.V.,; Ruhe, Robert V.,; Savage, D. E.,; Schafer, J.P.,; Schultz, C.B.,; Schumm, S. A.,; Scott, Glenn R.,; Selander, Robert K.,; Smith, Philip W.,; Steere, William C.,; Stephenson, Robert L.,; Stoltman, James B.,; Swain, F . M.,; Taylor, D. W.,; Tipton, M.J.,; Wahrhaftig, Clyde,; Wayne, William J.,; Weber, W. A.,; Weis, Paul L.,; White, George W.,; Whitehead, Donald R.,; Wilcox, Ray E.,; Williams, Stephen,; Willman, H.B.,; Wright, Η. E.,; Wright, Η.E.,; Zumberge, James H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1965
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1962
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (934 p.)

This important volume reviews the status of investigations aimed at deciphering the geologic, biogeographic, and archaeological records for the Quaternary Era-the last million years of geologic time-for the area of continental United States. Over eighty Quaternary scientists have contributed to the...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• PREFACE
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
• PART I: GEOLOGY
• GLACIATED AREA EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
• QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS
• GLACIATION OF MINNESOTA AND IOWA
• OUTLINE OF GLACIAL GEOLOGY OF ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN
• PLEISTOCENE GEOLOGY OF INDIANA AND MICHIGAN
• PLEISTOCENE DEPOSITS OF THE ERIE LOBE
• QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF NEW YORK
• THE QUATERNARY OF NEW ENGLAND
• UNGLACIATED EASTERN AND CENTRAL UNITED STATES
• THE ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN AND THE APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS IN THE QUATERNARY
• RÉSUMÉ OF THE QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHWESTERN GULF OF MEXICO PROVINCE
• THE PLEISTOCENE IN NEBRASKA AND NORTHERN KANSAS
• QUATERNARY OF THE SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS
• WESTERN UNITED STATES
• GLACIATION OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
• THE CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET OF THE NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS, AND RELATED QUATERNARY HISTORY OF THE COLUMBIA PLATEAU
• NONGLACIAL QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF T H E SOUTHERN AND MIDDLE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
• SNAKE RIVER PLAIN
• QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE GREAT BASIN
• QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHWEST
• THE QUATERNARY OF THE PACIFIC MOUNTAIN SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA
• THE GLACIAL HISTORY OF WESTERN WASHINGTON AND OREGON
• THE QUATERNARY GEOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF ALASKA
• PART II: BIOGEOGRAPHY
• PHYTOGEOGRAPHY AND PALYNOLOGY
• PHYTOGEOGRAPHY AND PALYNOLOGY OF NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
• PROBLEMS IN THE QUATERNARY PHYTOGEOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT LAKES REGION
• PALYNOLOGY AND PLEISTOCENE PHYTOGEOGRAPHY OF UNGLACIATED EASTERN NORTH AMERICA
• PLEISTOCENE POLLEN ANALYSIS AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE SOUTHWEST
• PLANT GEOGRAPHY IN THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS
• A PLEISTOCENE PHYTOGEOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND ALASKA
• THE BOREAL BRYOPHYTE FLORA AS AFFECTED BY QUATERNARY GLACIATION
• POLYPLOIDY, DISTRIBUTION, AND ENVIRONMENT
• ZOOGEOGRAPHY AND EVOLUTION
• QUATERNARY MAMMALS OF NORTH AMERICA
• AVIAN SPECIATION IN THE QUATERNARY
• AMPHIBIAN SPECIATION
• REPTILES IN THE QUATERNARY OF NORTH AMERICA
• QUATERNARY FRESHWATER FISHES OF NORTH AMERICA
• PLEISTOCENE EVENTS AND INSECTS
• THE STUDY OF PLEISTOCENE NONMARINE MOLLUSKS IN NORTH AMERICA
• OTHER INVERTEBRATES -AN ESSAY IN BIOGEOGRAPHY
• RECENT ADJUSTMENTS IN ANIMAL RANGES
• GENERAL
• PLEISTOCENE NONMARINE ENVIRONMENTS
• PART III: ARCHAEOLOGY
• LATE QUATERNARY PREHISTORY IN THE NORTHEASTERN WOODLANDS
• AN OUTLINE OF SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES PREHISTORY WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE PALEO-INDIAN ERA
• QUATERNARY HUMAN OCCUPATION OF THE PLAINS
• POSTGLACIAL CLIMATE AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE DESERT WEST
• PACIFIC COAST ARCHAEOLOGY
• PART IV: MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES
• LATE QUATERNARY HISTORY, CONTINENTAL SHELVES OF THE UNITED STATES
• ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY AND THE PLEISTOCENE CLIMATIC RECORD
• QUATERNARY PALEOPEDOLOGY
• GEOCHEMISTRY OP SOME QUATERNARY LAKE SEDIMENTS OF NORTH AMERICA
• QUATERNARY PALEOHYDROLOGY
• GLACIERS AND CLIMATE
• VOLCANIC-ASH CHRONOLOGY
• QUATERNARY PALEOMAGNETIC STRATIGRAPHY
• TECTONICS OF QUATERNARY TIME IN MIDDLE NORTH AMERICA
• DENDROCHRONOLOGY
• THEORETICAL PALEOCLIMATOLOGY
• INDEX OF AUTHORS CITED
• SUBJECT INDEX