Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology

A Closer Look Volume 15
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-444-53447-7
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 1126 Seiten, Format (B × H): 222 mm x 282 mm, Gewicht: 3292 g

The book presents an up-to-date, detailed overview of the Quaternary glaciations all over the world, not only with regard to stratigraphy but also with regard to major glacial landforms and the extent of the respective ice sheets. The locations of key sites are included. The information is presented in digital, uniformly prepared maps which can be used in a Geographical Information System (GIS) such as ArcView or ArcGIS. The accompanying text supplies the information on how the data were obtained (geomorphology, geological mapping, air photograph evaluation, satellite imagery), how the features were dated (14C, TL, relative stratigraphy) and how reliable they are supposed to be. All references to the underlying basic publications are included. Where controversial interpretations are possible e.g. in Siberia or Tibet, this is pointed out. As a result, the information on Quaternary glaciations worldwide will be much improved and supplied in a uniform digital format.The information on the glacial limits is compiled in digital form by the coordinators of the project, and is available for download at: http://booksite.elsevier.com/9780444534477/

Zielgruppe

Postgraduates and researchers who work with glaciations, climate modeling (same group as volumes 1-3), libraries, and academic and government institutions

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ehlers, J.

Gibbard, P L

Hughes, Philip D

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geomorphologie, Erosion, Glaziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

01 Introduction; 02 Austria; 03 Belarus; 04 Czechia; 05 Denmark; 06 England 1; 07 England 2; 08 Estonia; 09 Finland; 10 France; 11 Pyrenees; 12 Caucasus; 13 North Germany; 14 South Germany; 15 Greece; 16 Iceland; 17 Italy; 18 Latvia; 19 Lithuania; 20 Netherlands; 21 North Sea Basin; 22 Norway; 23 Poland; 24 Romania; 25 Russia North; 26 Russian Plain; 27 Barents Sea; 28 Russian Arctic; 29 Slovenia; 30 Turkey; 31 Ukraine; 32 North America Magnetostratigraphy; 33 Alaska; 34 California; 35 Hawaii; 36 Illinois; 37 Michigan; 38 Minnesota; 39 Ohio; 40 Pennsylvania; 41 Washington; 42 Wisconsin; 43 Missouri; 44 British Columbia; 45 Alberta; 46 Canadian Prairies; 47 Quebec; 48 Maritime Canada; 49 NW Canada; 50 Greenland; 51 Southern Patagonia; 52 Northern Patagonia; 53 Aconcagua; 54 Chile; 55 Bolivia; 56 Ecuador Peru Bolivia; 57 Ecuador 2; 58 Colombia; 59 Venezuela; 60 Costa Rica; 61 Mexico; 62 Afghanistan; 63 Northeast Asia; 64 Werkhoyansk Mountains; 65 Siberian Mountains; 66 Pakistan; 67 India; 68 High Asia; 69 Altai; 70 China; 71 Taiwan; 72 Japan; 73 Southeast Asia; 74 Australia; 75 New Zealand; 76 Morocco; 77 Kenya; 78 South Africa

Über Autor(innen)

Hughes, Philip D
Philip Hughes is Professor of Physical Geography and Head of Department at the University of Manchester. His first degree is in Geography from the University of Exeter followed by a Masters in Quaternary Science, then a PhD in Geography, both at the University of Cambridge (Darwin College). His PhD was on the glacial history of the Pindus Mountains, Greece. This was ollowed by an independent postdoctoral fellowship at Manchester examining the glaciation of Montenegro. He has since worked on glaciation across the Mediterranean mountains and elsewhere. He has utilised U-series dating and cosmogenic nuclides to date glacial landforms. He has also published on global glaciations and stratigraphy in Quaternary science. In 2011 Philip co-edited, with Jürgen Ehlers and Philip Gibbard, the successful Elsevier volume Quaternary Glaciation: Extent and Chronology - A Closer Look, and in 2023 three new Elsevier volumes on European Glacial Landscapes with David Palacios and co-authors.

Edited by J. Ehlers, Geologisches Landesamt, Hamburg, Germany; P.L. Gibbard, University of Cambridge, UK and P.D. Hughes, University of Manchester, UK