ISBN: 9780816532841

Over the past thirty years, late Quaternary environments in the arid interior of western North America have been revealed by a unique source of fossils: well-preserved fragments of plants… Mehr…

Over the past thirty years, late Quaternary environments in the arid interior of western North America have been revealed by a unique source of fossils: well-preserved fragments of plants and animals accumulated locally by packrats and quite often encased, amberlike, in large masses of crystallized urine. These packrat middens are ubiquitous in caves and rock crevices throughout the arid West, where they can lie preserved for tens of thousands of years. More than a thousand of these deposits have been dated and analyzed, and middens have supplanted pollen records as a touchstone for studying vegetation dynamics and climatic change in radiocarbon time (the last 40,000 years). Now, similar deposits made by other mammals like hyraxes are being reported from other parts of the world. This book brings together the findings and views of many of the researchers investigating fossil middens in the United States, Mexico, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia. The contributions serve to open a forum for methodological concerns, update the fossil record of various geographic regions, introduce new applications, and display the vast potential for fossil midden analysis in arid regions worldwide. The findings presented here will serve to foster regional research and to promote general studies devoted to global climate change. Included in the text are more than two hundred charts, photographs, and maps. Books, Packrat Middens: The Last 40,000 Years of Biotic Change Books, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS<

2016, ISBN: 0816532842

[EAN: 9780816532841], Neubuch, [SC: 0.0], [PU: University Of Arizona Press Jan 2016], SCIENCE; SCIENCE / ENVIRONMENTAL (SEE ALSO CHEMISTRY ENVIRONMENTAL); PALEONTOLOGY; LIFE SCIENCES ZOOL… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780816532841], Neubuch, [SC: 0.0], [PU: University Of Arizona Press Jan 2016], SCIENCE; SCIENCE / ENVIRONMENTAL (SEE ALSO CHEMISTRY ENVIRONMENTAL); PALEONTOLOGY; LIFE SCIENCES ZOOLOGY MAMMALS, Neuware - Brings together the most recent findings and views of many of the researchers now investigating fossil middens in the United States, Mexico, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia. The contributions serve to open a forum for methodological concerns, update the fossil record of various geographic regions, introduce new applications, and display the vast potential for fossil midden analysis in arid regions., Books<

ISBN: 9780816532841

Packrat Middens: The Last 40,000 Years of Biotic Change Packrat-Middens~~Julio-L-Betancourt Nature & Wildlife>Animals>Animals Paperback, University of Arizona Press

2016, ISBN: 9780816532841

The Last 40,000 Years of Biotic Change, Buch, Softcover, [PU: University of Arizona Press], University of Arizona Press, 2016

2001, ISBN: 9780816532841

The Last 40,000 Years of Biotic Change, Softcover, Buch, [PU: University of Arizona Press]