The Quaternary Period in the United States

Abstract

The southern Laurentide Ice Sheet / David M. Mickelson and Patrick M. Colgan -- The Cordilleran Ice Sheet / Derek B. Booth [and others] -- Controls, history, outbursts, and impact of large late-Quaternary proglacial lakes in North America / James T. Teller -- Pleistocene glaciations of the Rocky Mountains / Kenneth L. Pierce -- Quaternary alpine glaciation in Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, Sierra Nevada, and Hawaii / Darrell S. Kaufman, Stephen C. Porter and Alan R. Gillespie -- Coupling ice-sheet and climate models for simulation of former ice sheets / Shawn J. Marshall [and others] -- Permafrost process research in the United States since 1960 / Bernard Hallet [and others] -- Quaternary sea-level history of the United States / Daniel R. Muhs [and others] -- Western lakes / Larry Benson -- Isotopic records from ground-water and cave speleothem calcite in North America / Jay Quade -- Rivers and riverine landscapes / David R. Montgomery and Ellen E. Wohl -- Landscape evolution models / Frank J. Pazzaglia -- Eolian sediments / Alan J. Busacca [and others] -- Soils and the Quaternary climate system / Milan J. Pavich and Oliver A. Chadwick -- Earthquake recurrence inferred from paleoseismology / Brian F. Atwater [and others] -- Quaternary volcanism in the United States / William E. Scott -- Late-Quaternary vegetation history of the eastern United States / Eric C. Grimm and George L. Jacobson Jr. -- Quaternary vegetation and climate change in the western United States : developments, perspectives, and prospects / Robert S. Thompson [and others] -- Results and paleoclimate implications of 35 years of paleoecological research in Alaska / Patricia M. Anderson, Mary E. Edwards and Linda B. Brubaker. Quaternary history from the U.S. tropics / Sara Hotchkiss -- Climatically forced vegetation dynamics in eastern North America during the late Quaternary Period / Thompson Webb III, Bryan Shuman and John W. Williams -- Holocene fire activity as a record of past environmental change / Cathy Whitlock and Patrick J. Bartlein -- Interannual to decadal climate and streamflow variability estimated from tree rings / David W. Stahle, Falko K. Fye and Matthew D. Therrell -- Quaternary Coleoptera of the United States and Canada / Allan C. Ashworth -- Vertebrate paleontology / S. David Webb [and others] -- Peopling of North America / David J. Meltzer -- Modeling paleoclimates / Patrick J. Bartlein and Steven W. Hostetler.