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Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology
A Closer Look

State-of-the-art overview of the Quaternary glaciations, published in both a traditional and most up-to-date multimedia format

J. Ehlers (Edited by), P.L. Gibbard (Edited by), Philip D. Hughes (Edited by)

9780444534477

Hardback, published 20 July 2011

1126 pages
27.6 x 21.5 x 5.2 cm, 1.731 kg

"This book is part of a four-volume series (Part 1: Europe CH, Mar'05, 42-4043) reporting the work of an international commission on world glaciation; it summarizes and updates the previous volumes. Following an editors' introduction, 77 chapters discuss Europe, Greenland, western Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey (31 chapters); Canada and the US (18); Mexico through Tierra del Fuego (11); eastern Asia (12); Australia and New Zealand (2); and Africa (3). Improved digital maps are available online… rather than on CD-ROM as in prior volumes. The dating of glacial stages has also improved greatly here…. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty." --CHOICE

The book presents an up-to-date, detailed overview of the Quaternary glaciations all over the world, not only with regard to stratigraphy but also with regard to major glacial landforms and the extent of the respective ice sheets. The locations of key sites are included. The information is presented in digital, uniformly prepared maps which can be used in a Geographical Information System (GIS) such as ArcView or ArcGIS. The accompanying text supplies the information on how the data were obtained (geomorphology, geological mapping, air photograph evaluation, satellite imagery), how the features were dated (14C, TL, relative stratigraphy) and how reliable they are supposed to be. All references to the underlying basic publications are included. Where controversial interpretations are possible e.g. in Siberia or Tibet, this is pointed out. As a result, the information on Quaternary glaciations worldwide will be much improved and supplied in a uniform digital format.The information on the glacial limits is compiled in digital form by the coordinators of the project, and is available for download at: http://booksite.elsevier.com/9780444534477/

01 Introduction
02 Austria
03 Belarus
04 Czechia
05 Denmark
06 England 1
07 England 2
08 Estonia
09 Finland
10 France
11 Pyrenees
12 Caucasus
13 North Germany
14 South Germany
15 Greece
16 Iceland
17 Italy
18 Latvia
19 Lithuania
20 Netherlands
21 North Sea Basin
22 Norway
23 Poland
24 Romania
25 Russia North
26 Russian Plain
27 Barents Sea
28 Russian Arctic
29 Slovenia
30 Turkey
31 Ukraine
32 North America Magnetostratigraphy
33 Alaska
34 California
35 Hawaii
36 Illinois
37 Michigan
38 Minnesota
39 Ohio
40 Pennsylvania
41 Washington
42 Wisconsin
43 Missouri
44 British Columbia
45 Alberta
46 Canadian Prairies
47 Quebec
48 Maritime Canada
49 NW Canada
50 Greenland
51 Southern Patagonia
52 Northern Patagonia
53 Aconcagua
54 Chile
55 Bolivia
56 Ecuador Peru Bolivia
57 Ecuador 2
58 Colombia
59 Venezuela
60 Costa Rica
61 Mexico
62 Afghanistan
63 Northeast Asia
64 Werkhoyansk Mountains
65 Siberian Mountains
66 Pakistan
67 India
68 High Asia
69 Altai
70 China
71 Taiwan
72 Japan
73 Southeast Asia
74 Australia
75 New Zealand
76 Morocco
77 Kenya
78 South Africa

Subject Areas: Historical geology [RBGF], Geological surface processes [geomorphology RBGD]

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