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Title:
The ice age : a very short introduction / Jamie Woodward.
Author:
Woodward, Jamie C., author.
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

©2014
Call Number:
QE697 .W86 2014
Abstract:
"In an era of warming climate, the study of the ice age past is now more important than ever. This book examines the wonders of the Quaternary ice age - to show how ice age landscapes and ecosystems were repeatedly and rapidly transformed as plants, animals, and humans reorganized their worlds." --Publisher.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780199580699
Series:
Very short introductions ; 380

Very short introductions ; 380.
Physical Description:
xvii, 163 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 18 cm
Contents:
Quarternary ice age -- Erratic boulders and the diluvium -- Monster glaciers -- Die Eiszeit -- 1840 -- Ice sheets or icebergs? -- Glacials, interglacials, and celestial cycles -- Deep ocean sediments and dating the past -- Ice cores, abrupt climate shifts, and ecosystem change.
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