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UNINA9910822071203321 |
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Autore |
Ehlers Jürgen |
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The Ice Age |
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New York : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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9781118507773 |
9781118507810 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (786 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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HughesPhilip |
GibbardPhilip L |
EhlersJürgen |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ice sheets |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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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 |
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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 -- 13.2 Development of the Baltic Sea -- Chapter 14 Climate Models and Reconstructions -- 14.1 Ice Cores -- 14.2 The Marine Circulation -- 14.3 Modelling the Last Ice Sheets -- 14.4 Modelling Glaciers and Climate -- Chapter 15 Human Interference -- 15.1 Out of Africa: Humans Spread Out -- 15.2 Neanderthals and Homo sapiens -- 15.3 The Middle Stone Age -- 15.4 The Neolithic Period: The Beginning of Agriculture -- 15.5 Bronze and Iron -- 15.6 The Romans -- 15.7 Middle Ages -- 15.8 Recent Land Grab -- 15.9 Drying Lakes, Melting Glaciers and other Problems -- 15.10 The Anthropocene: Defining the Human Age? -- References -- Index -- EULA. |
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