The Ice Age (Hardcover)

1 Introduction: In the beginning was the Flood / Precambrian, Ordovician, Permo-Carboniferous - the Ice Ages of the Earth's History / Box: Ice Age in the Desert - Glacial Traces in Libya. 

2 The course of the ice age: Gunz, Mindel, Riss, Wurm - is the division still valid? / Milankovich and the consequences / Traces in the deep sea / The climate curve / The sequence of strata on the mainland has many gaps / When did the Quaternary begin?

3 Ice and water: Today's glaciers - from cirque glaciers to inland ice / Box: Deformable bedrock, impact glaciation? / Origin of glaciers / How does a glacier move? / Meltwater

4 Ground moraines and terminal moraines - the traces of glaciers: The ground moraine - a colorful mixture? / Long-distance transport - short-distance transport / Deposition of moraine material / Many investigation possibilities - but how independent are the results? / The dynamics of the ice sheets

5 From the glacial mill to the glacial valley: discharge behavior of today's glacial rivers / Traces of Pleistocene meltwater activity / Fjords, gullies, osses / Outwash plains and gravel terraces / Glacial valleys

6 Maps - where are we?: Maps and satellite images - basic data for ice age research / Projections and ellipsoids - the devil is in the details

7 How far did the glaciers reach?:  Europe - how far did the ice reach? / Barents Sea - the discovery of an ice sheet / Asia - the riddle of Tibet / North America - the ice ages are getting older / South America - volcanoes and glaciers / Africa, Australia, Oceania - where were there glaciers? And when? / Antarctica - eternal ice? / Attempt of an overview

8 Ice in the soil - the formation of periglacial areas: Today's permafrost / Periglacial formations / Weathering and leveling / Block glaciers - glaciers (almost) without ice / Strangulation and ground flow / Frost crevasses and ice wedges / Pingos, palsas and other frost bumps.

9 Hippos on the Thames - the history of warm periods: Vegetation development / Fauna evolution / Weathering and soil formation.

10 Process of deglaciation: ice disintegration / After the ice, the deluge - Lake Missoula and other ice reservoirs / The formation of sinks / Glacial scars and other traces of the last ice movement

11 Wind, sand and stones - the aeolian processes:  Dunes, drifting sand, loess / Water in the desert - the shifting of climatic zones / Changes in the rainforest / Traces of the periglacial climate. 

12 What happened to the rivers?:  Terraces, dry valleys, deltas - fluvial processes / The Rhine - influenced by Alpine and Nordic ice / The Elbe flowed to the Baltic Sea / The Siberian rivers and the largest lake on Earth.

13 North Sea and Baltic Sea - the history of marginal seas: The development of the North Sea / The formation of the North Sea / The formation of the coastal barrier with the islands / From ice reservoir to marginal sea - the development of the Baltic Sea

14 Man intervenes:  Human dispersal / Neanderthals / Postglacial development.

15 Climate reconstructions and models: Glaciation models / Models of oceanography / Climate models

16 Literature; Index

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