CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS II
3. CONTENTS 1
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 2
5. INTRODUCTION 3
6. HISTORY AND THEORY OF POLLEN ANALYSIS 5
7. GEOLOGIC ORIGIN AND AGE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST LAKE BASINS 8
8. POLLEN-BEARING PROFILES OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 19
9. GENERAL LATE-GLACIAL AND POSTGLACIAL CHRONOLOGY 33
10. RATE OF ORGANIC DEPOSITION 36
11. METHODS AND TECHNIQUE 38
12. CLIMATE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 47
13. FORESTS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 52
14. CHARACTERISTICS OF PACIFIC NORTHWEST FOREST TREES 71
15. POSTGLACIAL VEGETATION HISTORY 77
16. POSTGLACIAL FOREST SUCCESSION IN THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY 84
17. POSTGLACIAL VEGETATION OF EASTERN WASHINGTON 86
18. FOREST SUCCESSION ON THE PACIFIC COAST 95
19. POSTGLACIAL FOREST SUCCESSION IN THE CASCADE RANGE OF OREGON 99
20. POSTGLACIAL VEGETATION OF THE NORTHERN GREAT BASIN 102
21. INTERPRETATION OF MISCELLANEOUS PROFILES 105
22. POSTGLACIAL CLIMATE AND CHRONOLOGY 108
23. PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHRONOLOGY 112
24. EARLY POSTGLACIAL TIME IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 113
25. MIDDLE POSTGLACIAL TIME IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 116
26. TIME OF THE MOUNT MAZAMA ERUPTION 118
27. LATE POSTGLACIAL TIME 118
28. RECENT CLIMATIC TRENDS 120
29. PACIFIC NORTHWEST POLLEN PROFILES 121
30. REFERENCES 123
31. INDEX 127