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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Grayson, Donald Kenneth (1945-....)
Titre(s) : The great basin [Texte imprimé] : a natural prehistory / Donald K. Grayson
Publication : Berkeley (Calif.) : University of California press, cop. 2011
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-418 p.) : ill. ; 29 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 355-408
"The Great Basin, centering on Nevada and including substantial parts of California,
Oregon, and Utah, gets its name from the fact that none of its rivers or streams flow
to the sea. This book synthesizes the past 25,000 years of the natural history of
this vast region. It explores the extinct animals that lived in the Great Basin during
the Ice Age and recounts the rise and fall of the massive Ice Age lakes that existed
here. It explains why trees once grew 13' beneath what is now the surface of Lake
Tahoe, explores the nearly two dozen Great Basin mountain ranges that once held substantial
glaciers, and tells the remarkable story of how pinyon pine came to cover some 17,000,000
acres of the Great Basin in the relatively recent past. These discussions culminate
with the impressive history of the prehistoric people of the Great Basin, a history
that shows how human societies dealt with nearly 13,000 years of climate change on
this often-challenging landscape"--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Sciences naturelles -- Grand Bassin (États-Unis)
Géologie -- Grand Bassin (États-Unis)
Paléontologie -- Grand Bassin (États-Unis)
Indice(s) Dewey :
508.79 (23e éd.) = Histoire naturelle - États-Unis - Grand Bassin et versant du Pacifique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520267473. - ISBN 0520267478 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42686657h
Notice n° :
FRBNF42686657
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