After the Ice Age : the return of life to glaciated North America / E.C. Pielou.

By:

Pielou, E. C, 1924-2016

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 366 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0226668096
9780226668093
9780226668123
0226668126

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: After the Ice Age.DDC classification:

560/.1/78 20

LOC classification:

QE721.2.P24 P54 1991eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-355) and index.

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.

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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.

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