Title: Antarctic glacial history and world palaeoenvironments /
Authors: Symposium on Antarctic Glacial History and World Palaeoenvironments,; Van Zinderen Bakker, E. M.; International Council of Scientific Unions.; International Association for Quaternary Research; International Association for Quaternary Research.
Date: 1978
Publisher: A. A. Balkema,
Physical description: viii, 172 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Language: English
Contents: Comparison of Antarctic and Arctic climate and its relevance to climatic evolution / H. Flohn -- Glacial history of New Zealand and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica / A.T. Wilson -- Aspects of the early evolution of West Antarctic ice / D.J. Drewry -- Past surges in the West Antarctic ice sheet and their climatological significance / A.T. Wilson -- Cainozoic evolution of circum-Antarctic palaeoceanography / J.P. Kennett -- A review of the late Quaternary climatic history of Antarctic seas / J.D. Hays -- Glacial development and temperature trends in the Antarctic and in South America / J.H. Mercer -- Glacier fluctuations in South Georgia and comparison with other island groups in the Scotia Sea / C.M. Clapperton [and others] -- Aridification of the Namib Desert : evidence from oceanic cores / W.G. Siesser -- Late Cainozoic palaeoenvironments of southern Africa / J.A. Coetzee -- Late-Mesozoic and Tertiary palaeoenvironments of the Sahara region / E.M. van Zinderen Bakker Sr. -- Evidence for Quaternary glaciation of Marion Island (sub-Antarctic) and some implications / K.J. Hall -- Glacial age aeolian events at high and low latitudes : a Southern Hemisphere perspective / J.M. Bowler.
Notes: "International Council of Scientific Unions, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research; proceedings of a symposium held on 17th August, 1977 during the Xth INQUA Congress at Birmingham, U. K." "The proceedings of the former two symposia organised by the 'SCAR Group of Specialists on Late Cainozoic Studies' have been published in: Palaeoecology of Africa, the surrounding islands and Antarctica, vol. 5, 1969, ... [and] vol.8, 1973."
Subject headings (LCSH): Glacial epoch--Antarctica--Congresses.; Glaciers--Antarctica--Congresses.; Paleoclimatology--Antarctica--Congresses.; Polar regions--Congresses.