Quaternary Studies
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- Beringian Atlas
- Paleonenvironmental atlas of Beringia, an area covering easternmost Siberia and western Alaska.
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- Cambridge Quaternary
- Collaborators from several departments engaged in study of paleogeography, Quaternary history and stratigraphy, geoarcheology, palynology, paleontology, and related topics. Describes research, personnel, facilities, and activities.
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- Climate Change Institute, University of Maine
- Studies of climatology and paleoclimatology, glaciers, Quaternary geology, paleooceanography, paleoanthropology, and related areas.
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- NOVA Online - Warnings from the Ice
- Educational website to accompany TV program offers information about Antarctica and about how ice cores provide a record of the past. Discusses how the world's coastlines would recede if some or all of the Antarctic ice were to melt.
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- Quaternary
- Information from Wikipedia on the Quaternary Period, the geologic time period after the Neogene Period continuing from about 2.6 million years ago to the present.
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- Quaternary Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimate Studies at Colby College
- Information about student research, with numerous links.
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- Cracking the Ice Age
- Web site related to the NOVA television program about the big sweep and panorama of the Ice Age. Links to other resources. (November 01, 1997)
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- The Ascent of Mind, by William H. Calvin
- Book on the ice ages and how human intelligence evolved. (January 01, 1990)
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- Fundamentals of Sample Age Determination from its Amino Acid Racemization
- Short introduction to this method and its biochemical bases, by Policarp Hortolà.
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- International Glaciological Society
- Provides a focus for individuals interested in the practical and scientific aspects of snow and ice. Includes information on membership, the journal, meetings and symposia.
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- Scott Polar Research Institute - University of Cambridge
- World Data Center - Directory of European Glaciology
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- World Data Centre for Glaciology, Cambridge
- Includes a directory of European glaciology and an ice and snow database.
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- Ice Core Paleoclimatology Group
- Drilling projects in Bolivia, Greenland, Antarctica, Peru, Greenland, United States, China and Russia.
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- Timing of Abrupt Climate Change: A Precise Clock
- Paper by Stefan Rahmstorf explaining how an analysis of the GISP2 ice core record from Greenland reveals that abrupt climate events appear to repeat on a 1,470-year cycle with a period that is remarkably stable. [PDF]
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- Astronomical Theory of Climate Change
- NOAA Paleoclimatology Program educational material concerning the Milankovitch theory, which explains changes in the seasons as a result of changes in the earth's orbit around the sun.
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- USITASE International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition
- Description, publications, and other scientific contributions from investigations to reconstruct 200 - 2000 years of past climatic and environmental changes in Antarctica, using remote sensing, ice cores, geophysics, and other methods.
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- University of East Anglia: Climatic Research Unit
- Leading research center concerned with the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change. Site provides information on research projects and programmes, academic programmes, climate conferences and climate links.
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- Quaternary Science Reviews
- Caters for all aspects of Quaternary science, and includes, for example, geology, geomorphology, geography, archaeology, soil science, palaeobotany, palaeontology, palaeoclimatology and the full range of applicable dating methods.
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