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After the Ice Age : the return of life to glaciated North America / E.C. Pielou.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 366 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0226668096
  • 9780226668093
  • 9780226668123
  • 0226668126
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: After the Ice Age.DDC classification:
  • 560/.1/78 20
LOC classification:
  • QE721.2.P24 P54 1991eb
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. Preliminaries -- pt. 2. The time of maximum ice -- pt. 3. The melting of the ice -- pt. 4. The Pleistocene / Holocene transition -- pt. 5. Our present epoch, the holocene.
Summary: The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today. "One of the best scientific books published in the last ten years."?Ottowa Journal. "A valuable new synthesis of facts and ideas about climate, geography, and life during the past 20,000 years. More important, the book conveys an intimate appreciation of the rich variety of nature through time."?S. David Webb, Science.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-355) and index.

pt. 1. Preliminaries -- pt. 2. The time of maximum ice -- pt. 3. The melting of the ice -- pt. 4. The Pleistocene / Holocene transition -- pt. 5. Our present epoch, the holocene.

Print version record.

The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today. "One of the best scientific books published in the last ten years."?Ottowa Journal. "A valuable new synthesis of facts and ideas about climate, geography, and life during the past 20,000 years. More important, the book conveys an intimate appreciation of the rich variety of nature through time."?S. David Webb, Science.

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