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The ice age : a very short introduction / Jamie Woodward.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 163 p. : ill., maps, chartsISBN:
  • 9780199580699 (pbk.)
  • 0199580693 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 551.792 WOO.I
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Contents:
1. The quarternary ice age -- 2. Erratic boulders and the diluvium -- 3. Monster glaciers -- 4. Die Eiszeit -- 5. 1840 -- 6. Ice sheets or icebergs? -- 7. Glacials, interglacials, and celestial cycles -- 8. Deep ocean sediments and dating the past -- 9. Ice cores, abrupt climate shifts, and ecosystem change.
Summary: "In an era of warming climate, the study of the ice age past is now more important than ever. This book examines the wonders of the Quaternary ice age - to show how ice age landscapes and ecosystems were repeatedly and rapidly transformed as plants, animals, and humans reorganized their worlds." --Publisher.
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Book Book Dept. of Geology Processing Center Dept. of Geology Reference 551.792 WOO.I (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available GEO4602

Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-150) and index.

1. The quarternary ice age -- 2. Erratic boulders and the diluvium -- 3. Monster glaciers -- 4. Die Eiszeit -- 5. 1840 -- 6. Ice sheets or icebergs? -- 7. Glacials, interglacials, and celestial cycles -- 8. Deep ocean sediments and dating the past -- 9. Ice cores, abrupt climate shifts, and ecosystem change.

"In an era of warming climate, the study of the ice age past is now more important than ever. This book examines the wonders of the Quaternary ice age - to show how ice age landscapes and ecosystems were repeatedly and rapidly transformed as plants, animals, and humans reorganized their worlds." --Publisher.

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