The Quaternary of the U.S.

Herbert Edgar Wright; David G. Frey

Published by Princeton University Press 1965

The Quaternary of the U.S.

Herbert Edgar Wright and David G. Frey

Volume 1962 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400876525

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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 fifty-five chapters divided into four main parts. Part 1 treats the areal geology, with emphasis on the stratigraphy of the glaciated areas east of the Rocky Mountains, unglaciated eastern and central United States, and western United States. Part 2 deals with biogeography: phytogeography and palynology, animal geography and evolution. Part 3 deals with archaeology prehistory in the northeastern states, southeastern states, plains, desert west, and Pacific Coast including Alaska. Part 4 covers many diverse Quaternary studies on—the continental shelves, isotope geochemistry, paleopedology, the geochemistry of some lake sediments, paleohydrology, glaciers and climate, volcanic-ash chronology, paleomagnetism, neo-tectonics, dendrochronology, and theoretical paleoclimatology.

Originally published in 1965.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
PREFACE Η. E. Wright and David G. Frey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Richard Foster Flint Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I: GEOLOGY
GLACIATED AREA EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS R.W. Lemke, W.M. Laird, M.J. Tipton and R.M. Lindvall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
GLACIATION OF MINNESOTA AND IOWA Η.E. Wright and R.V. Ruhe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
OUTLINE OF GLACIAL GEOLOGY OF ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN John C. Frye, H.B. Willman and Robert P. Black Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
PLEISTOCENE GEOLOGY OF INDIANA AND MICHIGAN William J. Wayne and James H. Zumberge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
PLEISTOCENE DEPOSITS OF THE ERIE LOBE Richard P. Goldthwait, Aleksis Dreimanis, Jane L. Forsyth, Paul F. Karrow and George W. White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF NEW YORK Ernest H. Muller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
THE QUATERNARY OF NEW ENGLAND J.P. Schafer and J.H. Hartshorn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
UNGLACIATED EASTERN AND CENTRAL UNITED STATES
THE ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN AND THE APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS IN THE QUATERNARY Horace G. Richards and Sheldon Judson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
RÉSUMÉ OF THE QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHWESTERN GULF OF MEXICO PROVINCE Hugh A. Bernard and Rufus J. Leblanc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
THE PLEISTOCENE IN NEBRASKA AND NORTHERN KANSAS E. C. Reed, V.H. Dreeszen, C.K. Bayne and C.B. Schultz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
QUATERNARY OF THE SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS John C. Frye and A. Byron Leonard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
WESTERN UNITED STATES
GLACIATION OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS Gerald M. Richmond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
THE CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET OF THE NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS, AND RELATED QUATERNARY HISTORY OF THE COLUMBIA PLATEAU Gerald M. Richmond, Roald Fryxell, George E. Neff and Paul L. Weis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
NONGLACIAL QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF T H E SOUTHERN AND MIDDLE ROCKY MOUNTAINS Glenn R. Scott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
SNAKE RIVER PLAIN Harold E. Malde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE GREAT BASIN Roger B. Morrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHWEST Frank Ε. Kottlowski, Maurice E. Cooley and Robert V. Ruhe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
THE QUATERNARY OF THE PACIFIC MOUNTAIN SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA Clyde Wahrhaftig and J. H. Birman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
THE GLACIAL HISTORY OF WESTERN WASHINGTON AND OREGON Dwight R. Crandell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
THE QUATERNARY GEOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF ALASKA Troy L. Péwé, David M. Hopkins and J.L. Giddings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
PART II: BIOGEOGRAPHY
PHYTOGEOGRAPHY AND PALYNOLOGY
PHYTOGEOGRAPHY AND PALYNOLOGY OF NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES Margaret B. Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
PROBLEMS IN THE QUATERNARY PHYTOGEOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT LAKES REGION Edward J. Cushing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
PALYNOLOGY AND PLEISTOCENE PHYTOGEOGRAPHY OF UNGLACIATED EASTERN NORTH AMERICA Donald R. Whitehead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
PLEISTOCENE POLLEN ANALYSIS AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE SOUTHWEST Paul S. Martin and Peter J. Mehringer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
PLANT GEOGRAPHY IN THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS W. A. Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	453
A PLEISTOCENE PHYTOGEOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND ALASKA Calvin J. Heusser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
THE BOREAL BRYOPHYTE FLORA AS AFFECTED BY QUATERNARY GLACIATION William C. Steere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
POLYPLOIDY, DISTRIBUTION, AND ENVIRONMENT Albert W. Johnson, John G. Packer and Gerd Reese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	497
ZOOGEOGRAPHY AND EVOLUTION
QUATERNARY MAMMALS OF NORTH AMERICA C. W. Hibbard, D. E. Ray, D. E. Savage, D. W. Taylor and J. E. Guilday Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	509
AVIAN SPECIATION IN THE QUATERNARY Robert K. Selander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	527
AMPHIBIAN SPECIATION W. Frank Blair Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	543
REPTILES IN THE QUATERNARY OF NORTH AMERICA Walter Auffenberg and William W. Milstead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	557
QUATERNARY FRESHWATER FISHES OF NORTH AMERICA Robert Rush Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	569
PLEISTOCENE EVENTS AND INSECTS Herbert H. Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	583
THE STUDY OF PLEISTOCENE NONMARINE MOLLUSKS IN NORTH AMERICA D. W. Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	597
OTHER INVERTEBRATES —AN ESSAY IN BIOGEOGRAPHY David G. Frey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	613
RECENT ADJUSTMENTS IN ANIMAL RANGES Philip W. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	633
GENERAL
PLEISTOCENE NONMARINE ENVIRONMENTS Edward S. Deevey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	643
PART III: ARCHAEOLOGY
LATE QUATERNARY PREHISTORY IN THE NORTHEASTERN WOODLANDS James B. Griffin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	653
AN OUTLINE OF SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES PREHISTORY WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE PALEO-INDIAN ERA Stephen Williams and James B. Stoltman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	669
QUATERNARY HUMAN OCCUPATION OF THE PLAINS Robert L. Stephenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	685
POSTGLACIAL CLIMATE AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE DESERT WEST Martin A. Baumhoff and Robert F. Heizer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	697
PACIFIC COAST ARCHAEOLOGY Clement W. Meighan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	709
PART IV: MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES
LATE QUATERNARY HISTORY, CONTINENTAL SHELVES OF THE UNITED STATES Joseph R. Curray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	721
ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY AND THE PLEISTOCENE CLIMATIC RECORD Wallace S. Broecker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	737
QUATERNARY PALEOPEDOLOGY Robert V. Ruhe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	755
GEOCHEMISTRY OP SOME QUATERNARY LAKE SEDIMENTS OF NORTH AMERICA F . M. Swain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	765
QUATERNARY PALEOHYDROLOGY S. A. Schumm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	783
GLACIERS AND CLIMATE Mark F. Meier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	795
VOLCANIC-ASH CHRONOLOGY Ray E. Wilcox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	807
QUATERNARY PALEOMAGNETIC STRATIGRAPHY Allan Cox, Richard R. Doell and G. Brent Dalrymple Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	817
TECTONICS OF QUATERNARY TIME IN MIDDLE NORTH AMERICA Philip B. King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	831
DENDROCHRONOLOGY Harold C. Fritts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	871
THEORETICAL PALEOCLIMATOLOGY J. Murray Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	881
INDEX OF AUTHORS CITED Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	903
SUBJECT INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	913

Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Copyright year: 1965
Audience: Professional and scholarly;College/higher education;
Pages
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Published: December 8, 2015
ISBN: 9781400876525