Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology: A closer look (Developments in Quaternary Science 15)

1127 Pages·2011·174.7 MB·English

by  J. Ehlers

15
DEVELOPMENTS IN QUATERNARY SCIENCE
SERIES EDITOR: JAAP J.M. VAN DER MEER
QUATERNARY
GLACIATIONS
- E X T E N T A N D
C H R O N O L O G Y
A CLOSER LOOK
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Contents
Contributors xi 7. Pleistocene Glaciation Limits in
Preface XVII Great Britain 75
Philip L. Gibbard and Chris D. Clark
1. Introduction
8. Pleistocene Glaciations in Estonia 95
jurgen Ehlers, Philip L. Gibbard and Philip
D. Hughes Volli Kalm, Anto Raukas, Maris Rattas and
Katrin Lasberg
2. Quaternary Glaciations in Austria 15
9. The Glaciation of Finland 1 OS
Dirk van Husen
Peter Johansson, juha Pekka Lunkka and
3. The Pleistocene Glaciations in Pertti Sara/a
Belarus 29
10. Quaternary Glaciations in the French
A.K. Karabanov and A. . Matveyev
Alps and jura 117
4. Pleistocene Glaciations of Czechia 37 jean-Fram;ois Buoncristiani and Michel Campy
Daniel Nyvlt, Zbynek Engel and jaroslav Tyracek
11. Recent Advances in Research on
Quaternary Glaciations in the
5. Pleistocene Glaciations in Denmark: Pyrenees 127
A Closer Look at Chronology, Ice
Dynamics and Landforms 47 Marc Ca/vet, Magali Delmas, Yanni Gunnell,
Regis Braucher and Didier Bourles
Michael Houmark-Nie/sen
12. Late Pleistocene (Wurmian) Glaciations
6. The Glacial History of the British Isles of the Caucasus 141
during the Early and Middle Ramin Gobejishvili,
Pleistocene: Implications for the Nino Lomidze and Levan Tielidze
long-term development of the
59
British Ice Sheet
13. Pleistocene Glaciations of North
jonathan R. Lee, }ames Rose, Richard }.0. Hamblin, Germany-New Results 149
Brian S.. Moorlock, james B. Riding, Emrys Phillips,
}Urgen Ehlers, Alf Grube, Hans-}Urgen Stephan
Rene W Barendregt and Jan Candy
and Stefan Wansa
v
vi Contents
14. Pleistocene Glaciations of Southern 24. New Evidence on the Quaternary
Germany 163 Glaciation in the Romanian
Carpathians 305
Markus Fiebig, Dietrich Ellwanger and
Gerhard Doppler Petru Urdea, Alexandru Onaca, Florina Ardelean
and Mircea Ardelean
15. Glaciation in Greece: A New Record of
Cold Stage Environments in the 25. Ice Margins of Northern Russia
Mediterranean 175 Revisited 323
Jamie . Woodward and Philip D. Hughes Valery Astakhov
16. Pliocene and Pleistocene Glaciations of 26. Glaciations of the East European Plain:
Iceland: A Brief Overview of the Distribution and Chronology 337
Glacial History 199
A. A. Velichko, M.A. Faustova, .. Pisareva,
As/aug Geirsd6ttir Yu. N. Gribchenko, N.C. Sudakova and
N. . Lavrentiev
17. Middle Pleistocene to Holocene
Glaciations in the Italian Apennines 211 27. Glacial History of the Barents
Sea Region 361
Carlo Giraudi
Tore 0. Vorren, jon . Landvik, Karin Andreassen
and jan Sverre Laberg
18. Pleistocene Glaciations in Latvia 221
Vit/ijs Zelcs, Aivars Markots, Maris Nartiss and 28. Glacial History of the Taymyr Peninsula
Tomas Saks
and the Severnaya Zemlya
Archipelago, Arctic Russia 373
19. Pleistocene Glaciations in Lithuania 231
Per Molle, Christian Hjort, Helena Alexanderson
Rimante Guobyte and jonas Satkanas and Florian Sallaba
20. Pleistocene Glaciation in the 29. Glacial History of Slovenia 385
Netherlands 247
Milos Bavec and Tomai Verbic
Cees Laban and jaap }.M. van der Meer
30. Quaternary Glaciations of Turkey 393
21. The Pleistocene Glaciations of the
Mehmet Akif Sankaya, Attila ;i;ner and Marek Zreda
North Sea Basin 261
Alastair G.C. Graham, Martyn S. Stoker, Lidia 31. Limits of the Pleistocene
Lonergan, Tom Bradwell and Margaret A. Stewart
Glaciations in the Ukraine:
A Closer Look 405
22. Glacial History of Norway 279
Andrei . Matoshko
jan Mangerud, Richard Gyllencreutz, 0ystein
Lohne and john lnge Svendsen
32. Chronology and Extent of Late
Cenozoic Ice Sheets in North America:
23. Quaternary Glaciations in Poland 299 A Magnetostratigraphical
Assessment 419
Leszek Marks
Rene . Barendregt and Alejandra Duk-Rodkin
Contents vii
33. Alaska Palaeo-Glacier Atlas 43. Summary of Early and Middle
(Version 2) 427 Pleistocene Glaciations in Northern
Missouri, USA 553
Darrell S. Kaufman, Nicolas E. Young,
jason . Briner and William . Manley Charles W Rovey II and Greg Balco
34. Glaciations of the Sierra Nevada, 44. Pleistocene Glaciation of British
California, USA 447 Columbia 563
Alan R. Gillespie and Douglas H. Clark john }. Clague and Brent Ward
35. Pleistocene Glaciation of Hawaii 463 45. limits of Successive Middle and
Stephen . Porter late Pleistocene Continental
Ice Sheets, Interior Plains of
Southern and Central Alberta
36. Quaternary Glaciations in Illinois 467 and Adjacent Areas 575
B. Brandon Curr, David A. Grimley and
Lionel E. jackson, Laurence D. Andriashek
E. Donald McKay Ill
and Fred M. Phillips
37. Ice-Margin Fluctuations at the 46. Magnetostratigraphy of Quaternary
End of the Wisconsin Episode,
Sections in Eastern Alberta,
Michigan, USA 489 Saskatchewan and Manitoba 591
Grahame}. Larson Rene W Barendregt
38. The Quaternary of Minnesota 499 47. late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Decay
C. E. jennings and M.D. johnson of the laurentide Ice Sheet in
Quebec-labrador 601
39. Pleistocene Glaciation of Ohio, Serge Occhietti, M. Parent, . Lajeunesse,
USA 513 . Robert and E. Govare
john . Szabo, Michael . Angle and
Alex M. Eddy 48. The Appalachian Glacier Complex
in Maritime Canada 631
40. The Glaciation of Rudolph R. Stea, Allen A. Seaman, Toon Prank,
Pennsylvania, USA 521 Michael A. Parkhill, Serge Allard
and Daniel Utting
Duane D. Braun
49. Stratigraphical Record of Glacials/
41. Glaciation of Western Interglacials in Northwest Canada 661
Washington, USA 531
Alejandra Duk-Rodkin and Rene W Barendregt
Stephen . Porter
50. The Greenland Ice Sheet During the
42. The Quaternary of Wisconsin: Past 300,000 Years: A Review 699
An Updated Review of Stratigraphy,
Glacial History and landforms 537 Svend Funder, Kristian Kjellerup Kjeldsen,
6
Kurt Henrik Kjer and Calm Cofaigh
Kent M. Syverson and Patrick M. Colgan
viii Contents
51. Pleistocene Glaciations in Southern 59. Late Quaternary Glaciations in
Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego 715 the Venezuelan (Merida) Andes 835
Andrea Coronato and jorge Rabassa Volli Kalm and Wiliam C. Mahaney
52. Pleistocene Glaciations in Northern
60. Costa Rica and Guatemala 843
Patagonia, Argentina: An Updated
Review 729 Matthew S. Lachniet and Alex j. Roy
Oscar Martinez, Andrea Coronato and jorge
Rabassa 61. Late Quaternary Glaciation in
Mexico 849
53. The High-Glacial (Last Glacial Maximum)
Lorenzo Vazquez-Selem and Klaus Heine
Glacier Cover of the Aconcagua
Group and Adjacent Massifs in
the Mendoza Andes (South America) 62. Late Pleistocene Glaciation of
with a Closer Look at Further the Hindu Kush, Afghanistan 863
Empirical Evidence 735
Stephen . Porter
Matthias Kuhle
54. The Pleistocene Glaciations 63. Late Pleistocene Glaciations in
of Chile 739 North-East Asia 865
Stephan Harrison and Neil . Glasser 0. Yu. Glushkova
55. Late Quaternary Glaciations in Bolivia: 64. Extent and Timing of Quaternary
Glaciations in the Verkhoyansk
Comments on Some New Approaches
757 Mountains 877
to Dating Morainic Sequences
Georg Stauch and Frank Lehmkuhl
Klaus Heine
56. Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia 773 65. Glaciation in the High Mountains
of Siberia 883
jeff La Frenierre, Kyung In Huh and
Bryan G. Mark Vladimir S. Sheinkman
57. Late Quaternary Glaciations of 66. Late Quaternary Glaciation of
Ecuador 803 Northern Pakistan 909
Ulrich Kamp and Lewis A. Owen
Klaus Heine
58. Quaternary Glaciations of 67. Quaternary Glaciation of
Colombia 815 Northern India 929
Karin . He/mens Lewis A. Owen
Contents ix
68. The High Glacial (Last Ice Age and 73. The Glaciation of the South-East
last Glacial Maximum) Ice Cover of Asian Equatorial Region 1 023
High and Central Asia, with a
M.L. Prentice, G.S. Hope, j.A. Peterson and
Critical Review of Some Recent
Timothy . Barrows
OSLand TCN Dates 943
Matthias Kuhle 74. The Glaciation of Australia 1037
Eric A. Calhoun and Timothy . Barrows
69. The Extent and Timing of late
Pleistocene Glaciations in the Altai
75. Quaternary Glaciers of New
and Neighbouring Mountain
Zealand 1047
Systems 967
O.j.A. Barrell
Frank Lehmkuhl, Michael Klinge and
Georg Stauch
76. Quaternary Glaciations of the Atlas
Mountains, North Africa 1 065
70. Quaternary Glaciations: Extent and
Chronology in China 981 Philip D. Hughes, C.R. Fenton
and Philip L. Gibbard
Zhou Shangzhe, Li jijun, Zhao jingdong,
Wang jie and Zheng jingxiong
77. Quaternary Glacial Chronology
of Mount Kenya Massif 1075
71. late Pleistocene and Early Holocene
Wiliam . Mahaney
Glaciations in the Taiwanese High
1 003
Mountain Ranges
78. Glaciation in Southern Africa
Margot Bose and Robert Hebenstreit
and in the Sub-Antarctic 1081
72. late Quaternary Glaciations in Kevin Hall and fan Meiklejohn
Japan 1013
Takanobu Sawagaki and Tatsuto Aoki Index 1087
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