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The Ice Age
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2016.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- About the Companion Website
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- 1.1 In the Beginning was the Great Flood
- 1.2 The Ice Ages of the Earth
- 1.3 Causes of an Ice Age
- Chapter 2 The Course of the Ice Age
- 2.1 When did the Quaternary Period Begin?
- 2.2 What's in Stratigraphy?
- 2.3 Traces in the Deep Sea
- 2.4 Systematics of the Ice Age
- 2.5 Günz, Mindel, Riss and Würm: Do They Still Apply?
- 2.6 Northern Germany and Adjacent Areas
- 2.7 The British Pleistocene Succession
- 2.8 Quaternary History of North America
- 2.9 The Course of the Ice Ages: A Global View
- Chapter 3 Ice and Water
- 3.1 The Origin of Glaciers
- 3.2 Recent Glaciers: Small and Large
- 3.3 Dynamics of Ice Sheets
- 3.4 Meltwater
- Chapter 4 Till and Moraines: The Traces of Glaciers
- 4.1 Till
- 4.2 Moraines
- Chapter 5 Meltwater: From Moulins to the Urstromtal
- 5.1 Fjords, Channels and Eskers
- 5.2 Outwash Plains and Gravel Terraces
- 5.3 Ice-dammed Lakes
- 5.4 Kames: Deposits at the Ice Margin
- 5.5 Urstromtäler
- Chapter 6 Maps: Where Are We?
- 6.1 Digital Maps
- 6.2 Satellite Images: Basic Data for Ice-Age Research
- 6.3 Projections and Ellipsoids
- Chapter 7 Extent of the Glaciers
- 7.1 Exploring the Arctic by Airship
- 7.2 Glaciers in the Barents Sea
- 7.3 Isostasy and Eustasy
- 7.4 Ice in Siberia?
- 7.5 Asia: The Mystery of Tibet
- 7.6 South America: Volcanoes and Glaciers
- 7.7 Mediterranean Glaciations
- 7.8 Were Africa, Australia and Oceania Glaciated?
- 7.9 Antarctica: Eternal Ice?
- Chapter 8 Ice in the Ground: The Periglacial Areas
- 8.1 Definition and Distribution
- 8.2 Extent of Frozen Ground during the Pleistocene
- 8.3 Frost Weathering
- 8.4 Cryoplanation
- 8.5 Rock Glaciers: Glaciers (Almost) Without Ice
- 8.6 Involutions
- 8.7 Solifluction
- 8.8 Periglacial Soil Stripes
- 8.9 Frost Cracks and Ice Wedges
- 8.10 Pingos, Palsas and other Frost Phenomena
- Chapter 9 Hippos in the Thames: The Warm Stages
- 9.1 Tar Pits of Evidence
- 9.2 Development of Fauna
- 9.3 Development of Vegetation
- 9.4 Weathering and Soil Formation
- 9.5 Water in the Desert: The Shifting of Climate Zones
- 9.6 Changes in the Rainforest
- Chapter 10 The Course of Deglaciation
- 10.1 Contribution to Landforms
- 10.2 Ice Decay
- 10.3 The Origin of Kettle Holes
- 10.4 Pressure Release
- 10.5 A Sudden Transition?
- 10.6 The Little Ice Age
- Chapter 11 Wind, Sand and Stones: Aeolian Processes
- 11.1 Dunes
- 11.2 Aeolian Sand
- 11.3 Loess
- Chapter 12 What Happened to the Rivers?
- 12.1 River Processes and Landforms
- 12.2 Dry Valleys
- 12.3 The Rhine: Influences of Alpine and Nordic Ice
- 12.4 The Elbe: Once Flowed to the Baltic Sea
- 12.5 The Thames: Influence of British Ice
- Chapter 13 North and Baltic Seas during the Ice Age
- 13.1 Development of the North Sea