Actions for Pleistocene and Recent environments of the Central Great Plains.
Pleistocene and Recent environments of the Central Great Plains. / Edited by Wakefield Dort, Jr., and J. Knox Jones, Jr.
- Conference Author
- Symposium on Pleistocene and Recent Environments of the Central Plains (1968 : University of Kansas)
- Published
- Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [1970]
- Physical Description
- 433 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Dort, Wakefield, 1923-, Jones, J. Knox, and University of Kansas
- Series
- Contents
- Part I -- Earth Sciences and Climate -- Recurrent Climatic Stress on Pleistocene and Recent Environments / Wakefield Dort, Jr. -- The Stratigraphic Framework of Pleistocene Glacial and Periglacial Deposits on the Central Plains / Vincent H. Dreeszen -- The Lubbock Subpluvial / Fred Wendorf -- Soils, Paleosols, and Environment / Robert V. Ruhe -- The Character of Late-Glacial and Post-Glacial Climatic Changes / Ried A. Bryson, David A. Baerries, and Wayne M. Wendland -- Part II -- Anthropology -- Geochronology of Man-Mammoth Sites and Their Bearing on the Origin of the Llano Complex / C. Vance Haynes -- Early Ceramic Environmental Adaptations / Marvin F. Kivett -- Aspects of Adaptation Among Upper Republican Subsistence Cultivators / Richard A. Krause -- Climate and Culture History in the Middle Missouri Valley / Donald J. Lehmer -- Some Environmental and Historical Factors of the Great Bend Aspect / Waldo R. Wedel -- Part III -- Botany -- Pollen Analysis of Pre-Wisconsin Sediments from the Great Plains / Ronald O. Kapp -- Vegetational History of the Central Plains / H.E. Wright, Jr. -- A Record of Wisconsin-Age Vegetation and Fauna from the Ozarks of Western Missouri / Peter J. Mehringer, Jr., James E. King, and Everett H. Lindsay -- Vegetational History of the Great Plains: A Post-Glacial Record of Coniferous Woodland in Southeastern Wyoming / Philip V. Wells -- Effects of Historical Droughts on Grassland Vegetation in the Central Great Plains / G.W. Tomanek and G.K. Hulett -- Historical Factors Controlling Vegetation Patterns and Floristic Distributions in the Central Plains Region of North America / Philip V. Wells -- Part IV -- Zoology -- The Ecological History of the Great Plains: Evidence from Grassland Insects / Herbert H. Ross -- Fishes as Indicators of Pleistocene and Recent Environments in the Central Great Plains / Frank B. Cross -- Factor Analysis of Distribution Patterns of Kansas Fishes / Gerald R. Smith and David R. Fisher -- The North American Central Plains as an Isolating Agent in Bird Speciation / Robert M. Mengel -- Quaternary Mammalian Sequence in the Central Great Plains / C. Bertrand Schultz and Larry D. Martin -- Influence of Late-Glacial and Post-Glacial Events on the Distribution of Recent Mammals on the Northern Great Plains / Robert S. Hoffmann and J. Knox Jones, Jr. -- Pleistocene Mammalian Local Faunas from the Great Plains and Central Lowland Provinces of the United States / Claude W. Hibbard.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0700600639
- Note
- Sponsored by various departments of the university and held Oct. 25 and 26, 1968.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographies.
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