Man and the Glacial PeriodWright, G. Frederick (George Frederick)
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Man and the Glacial Period
Wright, G. Frederick (George Frederick)
Glacial epoch; Prehistoric peoples
CHAPTER II.
Existing Glaciers 9-42
In Europe; in Asia; in Oceanica; in South America;
on the Antarctic Continent; in North America.
CHAPTER III.
Glacial Motion 43-50
CHAPTER IV.
Signs of Past Glaciation 51-65
CHAPTER V.
Ancient Glaciers in the Western Hemisphere 66-128
New England; New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania;
the Mississippi Basin; west of the Rocky Mountains.
CHAPTER VI.
Ancient Glaciers in the Eastern Hemisphere 129-192
Central and Southern Europe; the British Isles--the
Preglacial Level of the Land, the Great Glacial Centres,
the Confluent Glaciers, the East Anglian Glacier,
the so-called Great Submergence; Northern Europe;
Asia; Africa.
CHAPTER VII.
Drainage Systems in the Glacial Period 193-241
In America--Preglacial Erosion, Buried Outlets and
Channels, Ice-dams, Ancient River Terraces; in Europe.
CHAPTER VIII.
Relics of Man in the Glacial Period 242-301
In Glacial Terraces of the United States; in Glacial
Terraces of Europe; in Cave Deposits in the British
Isles; in Cave Deposits on the Continent; Extinct
Animals associated with Man; Earliest Man on the
Pacific Coast of North America.
CHAPTER IX.
The Cause of the Glacial Period 302-331
CHAPTER X.
The Date of the Glacial Period 332-364
Appendix on the Tertiary Man 365-374
Index 375-385
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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