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The Pleistocene of North America
Oliver Perry Hay
Great ice sheets ground across the continent and left their mark, and Oliver Perry Hay reads it. His study of the Pleistocene of North America maps the limits, divisions, and continental changes of the ice age. Detailed, authoritative, and vast in scope. A monumental survey of the epoch that shaped the modern land. Trace the advance and retreat of the ice across ancient North America.
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343 chapters
- 1THE PLEISTOCENE OF NORTH AMERICA AND ITS VERTEBRATED ANIMALS FROM THE STATES EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND FROM THE CANADIAN PROVINCES EAST OF LONGITUDE 95°.
- 2CONTENTS
- 3ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4PREFACE.
- 5CONCLUSIONS REGARDING THE DIVISIONS OF THE PLEISTOCENE.
- 6I. Limits of the Pleistocene.
- 7II. The Blanco Pliocene.
- 8III. The Historical Divisions of the Pleistocene.
- 9IV. Elevations of the Continent Immediately Preceding or Accompanying the Opening of the Pleistocene.
- 10V. Connections with Asia and South America.
- 11VI. The Sources of the Vertebrates of the Pleistocene.
- 12VII. The Richness of the Pleistocene Vertebrate Life.
- 13VIII. On Evolution During the Pleistocene.
- 14IX. Did the Extinction of Species Take Place Mostly at the End of the Pleistocene?
- 15X. The Stratigraphical and Time Limits of the Earliest Pleistocene.
- 16XI. The First Interglacial, or Aftonian, Stage.
- 17XII. The Yarmouth Interglacial Stage.
- 18XIII. The Illinoian Glacial Stage.
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