12.740 | Spring 2008 | Graduate

Paleoceanography

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Continental Evidence for Glacial Climate

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Lecture presentation on continental evidence for glacial climate. Includes studies of moraines, eskers, striations, tree rings, packrat middens, beetle remains, pollen in lakes, peat bogs, and marine continental marginsediments, modern dune deserts, Loess deposits in caves, Devil’s Hole vein calcite controversy, groundwater aquifers, and marine-continental correlations.

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Continental Evidence for Glacial Climate

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