After the Ice Age : the return of life to glaciated North America / / E.C. Pielou
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| Autore: |
Pielou E. C. <1924->
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| Titolo: |
After the Ice Age : the return of life to glaciated North America / / E.C. Pielou
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1991 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina: | 560/.1/78 |
| Soggetto topico: | Paleobiogeography - North America |
| Paleontology - Holocene | |
| Glacial epoch - North America | |
| Paleoecology - Holocene | |
| Paleoecology - North America | |
| Classificazione: | RT 15123 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-355) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Preliminaries -- pt. 2. The time of maximum ice -- pt. 3. The melting of the ice -- pt. 4. The Pleistocene / Holocene transition -- pt. 5. Our present epoch, the holocene. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today. "One of the best scientific books published in the last ten years."-Ottowa Journal "A valuable new synthesis of facts and ideas about climate, geography, and life during the past 20,000 years. More important, the book conveys an intimate appreciation of the rich variety of nature through time."-S. David Webb,Science |
| Titolo autorizzato: | After the Ice Age |
| ISBN: | 1-281-43051-X |
| 0-226-66809-6 | |
| 9786611430511 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812169603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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