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The great basin [[electronic resource] ] : a natural prehistory / / Donald K. Grayson



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Autore: Grayson Donald K Visualizza persona
Titolo: The great basin [[electronic resource] ] : a natural prehistory / / Donald K. Grayson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2011
Edizione: Rev. and expanded ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 p.)
Disciplina: 508.79
Soggetto topico: Geology, Stratigraphic - Pleistocene
Geology, Stratigraphic - Holocene
Geology - Great Basin
Paleontology - Great Basin
Indians of North America - Great Basin - Antiquities
Paleo-Indians - Great Basin
Soggetto geografico: Great Basin Antiquities
Soggetto non controllato: american west
animals
archaeological sites
archaeology
biogeography
bison
bonneville salt flats
botany
california
climate
death valley
ecosystem
environment
environmentalism
geology
glaciers
great basin
great salt lake
history
indigenous people
lake cores
lake tahoe
lakes
natural history
nature
nevada
oregon
packrat middens
paleontology
rivers
science
tree rings
utah
wildlife
Classificazione: NAT011000
Altri autori: GraysonDonald K  
Note generali: Rev. ed. of: The desert's past. c1993.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The Great Basins -- pt. 2. Some Ice Age background -- pt. 3. The late Ice Age Great Basin -- pt. 4. The last 10,000 years -- pt. 5. Great Basin archaeology -- pt. 6. Conclusions.
Sommario/riassunto: "The Great Basin, centering on Nevada and including substantial parts of California, Oregon, and Utah, gets its name from the fact that none of its rivers or streams flow to the sea. This book synthesizes the past 25,000 years of the natural history of this vast region. It explores the extinct animals that lived in the Great Basin during the Ice Age and recounts the rise and fall of the massive Ice Age lakes that existed here. It explains why trees once grew 13' beneath what is now the surface of Lake Tahoe, explores the nearly two dozen Great Basin mountain ranges that once held substantial glaciers, and tells the remarkable story of how pinyon pine came to cover some 17,000,000 acres of the Great Basin in the relatively recent past.These discussions culminate with the impressive history of the prehistoric people of the Great Basin, a history that shows how human societies dealt with nearly 13,000 years of climate change on this often-challenging landscape"--
Titolo autorizzato: The great basin  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27782-4
9786613277824
0-520-94871-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826955703321
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