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Record #204049:

The Great Basin: a natural prehistory / Donald K. Grayson.

Title: The Great Basin: a natural prehistory / Donald K. Grayson.
Author(s): Grayson, Donald K.
Date: 2011.
Publisher: Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California
Abstract: Describes Great Basin, centred on Nevada, defined by fact that none of its rivers flow into sea. Outlines history of Great Basin environments from last maximum advance of glaciers in North America (c.18,000 years ago) to arrival of Europeans. Includes chapters on Bering land bridge, lakes and glaciers of Late Pleistocene Great Basin, and Great Basin during Holocene.
Notes:

Originally published: Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1993. The desert's past.

Keywords: 551.32 -- Glaciology.
551.324 -- Land ice.
551.324.22 -- Glaciers.
551.33 -- Glacial geology.
551.336 -- Ice ages.
551.337 -- Chronology of the Pleistocene and recent periods.
528.9 -- Cartography.
551.7 -- Stratigraphy.
551.79 -- Quaternary.
551.791 -- Pleistocene.
551.794 -- Holocene.
556 -- Hydrology.
556.51 -- River basins and watersheds.
556.51/.54 -- Rivers and streams.
556.55 -- Lakes and ponds.
550.93 -- Geochronology.
E7 -- Glaciology: glacial geology and ice ages.
(7) -- North America.
(73) -- United States.
(79) -- Pacific states.
(237.1) -- Rockies and other mountains of western North America.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-SHF: 551.336 : 551.79
ISBN: 9780520267473
SPRI record no.: 204049

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