Ice Sheets and Late Quaternary Environmental Change
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: April 18, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780471985693
Subjects: Glaciology; Science/Mathematics; Environmental Geology; Science; Ice sheets; Global environmental change; Earth Sciences - General; Environmental Science; Weather; Science / Earth Sciences; Earth Sciences - Geology; Geology, Stratigraphic; Glacial epoch; Holocene
First sentence: The last ice age occurred between about 120 000 and 10 000 years ago in a period known generally as the Late Quaternary (Figure 1.1).