PLEISTOCENE NONMARINE ENVIRONMENTS

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1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 1
5. PART I: GEOLOGY
6. GLACIATED AREA EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
7. QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS 13
8. GLACIATION OF MINNESOTA AND IOWA 29
9. OUTLINE OF GLACIAL GEOLOGY OF ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN 43
10. PLEISTOCENE GEOLOGY OF INDIANA AND MICHIGAN 63
11. PLEISTOCENE DEPOSITS OF THE ERIE LOBE 85
12. QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF NEW YORK 99
13. THE QUATERNARY OF NEW ENGLAND 113
14. UNGLACIATED EASTERN AND CENTRAL UNITED STATES
15. THE ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN AND THE APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS IN THE QUATERNARY 129
16. RÉSUMÉ OF THE QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHWESTERN GULF OF MEXICO PROVINCE 137
17. THE PLEISTOCENE IN NEBRASKA AND NORTHERN KANSAS 187
18. QUATERNARY OF THE SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS 203
19. WESTERN UNITED STATES
20. GLACIATION OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS 217
21. THE CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET OF THE NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS, AND RELATED QUATERNARY HISTORY OF THE COLUMBIA PLATEAU 231
22. NONGLACIAL QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF T H E SOUTHERN AND MIDDLE ROCKY MOUNTAINS 243
23. SNAKE RIVER PLAIN 255
24. QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE GREAT BASIN 265
25. QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHWEST 287
26. THE QUATERNARY OF THE PACIFIC MOUNTAIN SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA 299
27. THE GLACIAL HISTORY OF WESTERN WASHINGTON AND OREGON 341
28. THE QUATERNARY GEOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF ALASKA 355
29. PART II: BIOGEOGRAPHY
30. PHYTOGEOGRAPHY AND PALYNOLOGY
31. PHYTOGEOGRAPHY AND PALYNOLOGY OF NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES 375
32. PROBLEMS IN THE QUATERNARY PHYTOGEOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT LAKES REGION 403
33. PALYNOLOGY AND PLEISTOCENE PHYTOGEOGRAPHY OF UNGLACIATED EASTERN NORTH AMERICA 417
34. PLEISTOCENE POLLEN ANALYSIS AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE SOUTHWEST 433
35. PLANT GEOGRAPHY IN THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS 453
36. A PLEISTOCENE PHYTOGEOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND ALASKA 469
37. THE BOREAL BRYOPHYTE FLORA AS AFFECTED BY QUATERNARY GLACIATION 485
38. POLYPLOIDY, DISTRIBUTION, AND ENVIRONMENT 497
39. ZOOGEOGRAPHY AND EVOLUTION
40. QUATERNARY MAMMALS OF NORTH AMERICA 509
41. AVIAN SPECIATION IN THE QUATERNARY 527
42. AMPHIBIAN SPECIATION 543
43. REPTILES IN THE QUATERNARY OF NORTH AMERICA 557
44. QUATERNARY FRESHWATER FISHES OF NORTH AMERICA 569
45. PLEISTOCENE EVENTS AND INSECTS 583
46. THE STUDY OF PLEISTOCENE NONMARINE MOLLUSKS IN NORTH AMERICA 597
47. OTHER INVERTEBRATES —AN ESSAY IN BIOGEOGRAPHY 613
48. RECENT ADJUSTMENTS IN ANIMAL RANGES 633
49. GENERAL
50. PLEISTOCENE NONMARINE ENVIRONMENTS 643
51. PART III: ARCHAEOLOGY
52. LATE QUATERNARY PREHISTORY IN THE NORTHEASTERN WOODLANDS 653
53. AN OUTLINE OF SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES PREHISTORY WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE PALEO-INDIAN ERA 669
54. QUATERNARY HUMAN OCCUPATION OF THE PLAINS 685
55. POSTGLACIAL CLIMATE AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE DESERT WEST 697
56. PACIFIC COAST ARCHAEOLOGY 709
57. PART IV: MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES
58. LATE QUATERNARY HISTORY, CONTINENTAL SHELVES OF THE UNITED STATES 721
59. ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY AND THE PLEISTOCENE CLIMATIC RECORD 737
60. QUATERNARY PALEOPEDOLOGY 755
61. GEOCHEMISTRY OP SOME QUATERNARY LAKE SEDIMENTS OF NORTH AMERICA 765
62. QUATERNARY PALEOHYDROLOGY 783
63. GLACIERS AND CLIMATE 795
64. VOLCANIC-ASH CHRONOLOGY 807
65. QUATERNARY PALEOMAGNETIC STRATIGRAPHY 817
66. TECTONICS OF QUATERNARY TIME IN MIDDLE NORTH AMERICA 831
67. DENDROCHRONOLOGY 871
68. THEORETICAL PALEOCLIMATOLOGY 881
69. INDEX OF AUTHORS CITED 903
70. SUBJECT INDEX 913