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Record Nr.

UNINA9910963777103321

Titolo

Late quaternary environments of the Soviet Union / / A.A. Velichko, editor ; H.E. Wright, Jr. and C.W. Barnosky, editors of the English- language edition

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Longman, 1984

ISBN

9780816655311

0816655316

9781435606159

1435606159

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 327 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

VelichkoA. A (Andreĭ Alekseevich)

WrightH. E <1917-> (Herbert Edgar)

BarnoskyC. W

Disciplina

551.7/9/0947

Soggetti

Geology, Stratigraphic - Quaternary

Geology - Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translations from the Russian.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors to This Volume; Preface; Introduction to the English edition; Introduction; Late Pleistocene Glaciation of the Northern USSR; Mountain Glaciation; Permafrost in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene; Loesses, Fossil Soils, and Periglacial Formations; Vegetational History; Development of Animal Populations; Inland Sea Basins; Paleoclimatic Reconstructions; Dispersal of Primitive Cultures