Table of Contents

1. The southern Laurentide Ice Sheet in the United States: What have we learned in the last 40 years? 2. The Cordilleran Ice Sheet 3. Controls, history, outbursts, and impact of large late-quaternary proglacial lakes in North America 4. Pleistocene glaciations of the Rocky Mountains 5. Quaternary alpine glaciation in Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, Sierra Nevada, and Hawaii 6. Coupling ice sheet and climate models for simulation of former ice sheets 7. Advances in permafrost process research in the United States since 1960 8. Quaternary sea-level history of the United States 9. Western Lakes 10. Isotopic records from ground-water and cave speleothem calcite in North America 11. Rivers and riverine landscapes 12. Landscape evolution models 13. Eolian sediments 14. Soils and the quaternary climate system 15. Earthquake recurrence inferred from paleoseismology 16. Quaternary volcanism in the United States 17. Late quaternary vegetation history of the eastern United States 18. Quaternary vegetation and climate change in the western United States: Developments, perspectives, and prospects 19. Results and paleoclimate implications of 35 years of paleoecological research in Alaska 20. Quaternary history from the US tropics 21. Climatically forced vegetation dynamics in eastern North America during the late quaternary 22. Holocene fire activity as a record of past environmental change 23. Interannual to decadal climate and streamflow variability estimated tree rings 24. Quaternary coleoptera of the United States and Canada 25. Vertebrate paleontology 26. Peopling of North America 27. Modeling paleoclimates

Reviews

E. Delson ...This will be a useful addition to geological reference collections. ...Recommended. General readers; upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers. CHOICE V.T. Holliday ...is sure to be a standard reference work. Most chapters will be excellent sources for lecture material in classes on the Quaternary. Geoarchaeology