The Great Basin : a Natural Prehistory, Revised and Expanded Edition.
Covering a large swath of the American West, the Great Basin, centered in Nevada and including parts of California, Utah, and Oregon, is named for the unusual fact that none of its rivers or streams flow into the sea. This fascinating illustrated journey through deep time is the definitive environme...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: The Great Basins; Chapter 1: Discovering a Great Basin; Chapter 2: Modern Definitions of the Great Basin; Part Two: Some Ice Age Background; Chapter 3: Glaciers, Sea Levels, and the Peopling of the Americas; Chapter 4: The End of the North American Pleistocene: Extinct Mammals and Early Peoples; Part Three: The Late Ice Age Great Basin; Chapter 5: The Late Pleistocene Physical Environment: Lakes and Glaciers; Chapter 6: Late Pleistocene Vegetation of the Great Basin.