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Quaternary Stratigraphy of Asia and the Pacific, IGCP 296

Author : United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Publisher : New York : United Nations

Page : 174 pages

File Size : 15,68 MB

Release : 1994

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9789211196382

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Book Description

Comprises a selection of 17 papers presented at the third and fourth regional meetings of Project 296 of the International Geological Correlation Programme, held in Thailand and Viet Nam during 1991 and 1992, respectively. They include (but are not limited to) information on stratigraphic subdivision and climatic changes, the significance of palynology, Pleistocene-Holocene unconformity, radiocarbon and thermoluminiscence dating, and Holocene sea level changes. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR







Quaternary Stratigraphy of Asia and the Pacific, IGCP 296

Author : United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Publisher : New York : United Nations

Page : 157 pages

File Size : 34,3 MB

Release : 1994

Category : Geology

ISBN : 9789211196382

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Book Description

Comprises a selection of 17 papers presented at the third and fourth regional meetings of Project 296 of the International Geological Correlation Programme, held in Thailand and Viet Nam during 1991 and 1992, respectively. They include (but are not limited to) information on stratigraphic subdivision and climatic changes, the significance of palynology, Pleistocene-Holocene unconformity, radiocarbon and thermoluminiscence dating, and Holocene sea level changes. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR



The Pleistocene Boundary and the Beginning of the Quaternary

Author : John A. Van Couvering

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 326 pages

File Size : 35,43 MB

Release : 2004-12-16

Category : Science

ISBN : 0521617022

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Book Description

This book documents the agreed geological reference point for the Pleistocene boundary, and its worldwide correlation.



History of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology

Author : R. H. Grapes

Publisher : Geological Society of London

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 31,88 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Science

ISBN : 9781862392557

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Book Description

These papers deal with various aspects of the histories of geomorphology and Quaternary geology in different parts of the world. They include: the origin of the term 'Quaternary', histories of ideas and debates relating to aspects of fluvial geomorphology, glacial geomorphology and glaciation, desert dunes and the geology of Australia, peneplains in China, a palaeo-Tokyo Bay in Japan, together with biographies of Charles Cotton, Valerija Čepulytė and Česlovas Pakuckas that highlight their respective contributions to the disciplines of geomorphology and Quaternary geology.







Paleoclimate and Evolution, with Emphasis on Human Origins

Author : Elisabeth S. Vrba

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 567 pages

File Size : 41,26 MB

Release : 1995-01-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0300063482

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Book Description

Addressing the relationship between climatic and biotic evolution, this work focuses on how climatic change during the last 15 million years - especially the last three million - has affected human evolution and other evolutionary events.