Chapter 23: The Ice Age

Review Questions for Chapter 23

General Paleoclimate Links

• Links to Earth-Science Resources (Last Updated 1997)
• Environmental Links
• The World Data Center System
• USGS Global Change Research Program
• Links to Websites on Global Change
• Canada's Site on Global Climate Change [Not responding 5/00]
• Brief Summary of Greenhouse Effect
• Enhanced Greenhouse Effect Facts
• Australian Greenhouse Office
• Quicktime Movies on Global Warming
• Climate Records from Australia
• Palynology: Study of Microscopic, Decay-Resistant Organism Remains
• Current Palynological Investigation at the University of Arizona
• Links to Quaternary & Environmental Sciences

Paleoclimatology

• NOAA's Paleoclimatology Program
• The Coriolis Force Explained: Which Way Does the Toilet Water Rotate?

Ice Ages and Climatic Change

• Introduction to the Ice Ages
• Evidence for a Massive Precambrian Ice Age (700 Ma)
• North America during the Last 150,000 Years
• Ice Age Paleoecology
• Vegetational Change in Eastern North America over Last 18,000 Years
• Vegetation of Western North America During Last Ice Age at 18,000, 9,000, 8,000, or 5,000 Years Before Present or Current Patterns.
• Albido Effect: Earth Energy Balance Model
• Examples of Ice Cores

The Pleistocene Ice Age

• Overview of the Pleistocene Epoch
• Cool Maps of the Pleistocene (18,000 Years Ago) and the Modern World
• Great Book: After the Ice Age : The Return of Life to Glaciated North America by E.C. Pielou
• The Page Museum at the La Brea Tarpits, Los Angeles
• Pleistocene Mammals at the Russian Paleontological Institution
• Douglas Henderson's Illustration of an Imperial Mammoth

Visit the Source of this Animated Image at The Carnivorous Mammals of North America Website

The World Today

• Overview of the Holocene (Last 11,000 Years)
• Climate Change During the Last 3,000 Years

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