rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Glaciations in North and South America from the Miocene to the Last Glacial Maximum
    sub title: Comparisons, Linkages and Uncertainties
  name:
    name part: Rutter, Nat.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Coronato, Andrea.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Helmens, Karin.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Rabassa, Jorge.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Zárate, Marcelo.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 67 p. 18 illus., 13 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Improved dating methods have increased our ability to more precisely determine the timing and durations of glaciations. Utilizing glacial and loess deposits, we have compared glaciations that occurred in North and South America in order to determine if events are synchronous or not, to explore forcing mechanisms, and to compare glaciations with cold periods of the Marine Oxygen Isotope stages and the loess/paleosol records of China. Stratigraphic sections containing a variety of glacial deposits, some with interbedded volcanics, as well as loess deposits, were used in reconstructing the glacial history. The Late Pleistocene (Brunhes Chron) Last Glacial Maximum is recognized in mountain and continental areas of North America but only in the mountains of South America. Commonly our comparisons indicate roughly synchronous glaciations on the two continents, whereas other glaciations are more elusive and difficult to compare. Although our comparisons are at low resolutions, the results suggest that Milankovitch forcing is most likely the dominant trigger for hemispheric glaciation modified by local factors.
  table of contents: Introduction and Previous Work -- The Glacial and Loess Record of Southern South America -- The Glacial Record of Northern South America -- The Glacial and Loess Record of North America -- Comparison of South and North American Glaciations -- Chinese Loess/Paleosol Record.
  note: by Nat Rutter, Andrea Coronato, Karin Helmens, Jorge Rabassa, Marcelo Zárate.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Climatology
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Physical geography
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Climatology
  subject:
    topic: Earth System Sciences
  classification: QE1-996.5
  classification: 551
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences
  identifier: 9789400743991
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4399-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 120629
    record change date: 20151204141002.0
    record identifier: 978-94-007-4399-1