GEOL 459/559 Quaternary Climate
syllabus (pdf)
laboratory exercises
reprints: class readings
reprints: additional lab references
reprints: classics
- The surface of the Ice Age Earth, 1976, CLIMAP members.
- Climatic changes of the last 18,000 years:Observations and model simulations, 1988, COHMAP members.
- Climatic changes in southern Conecticut recorded by pollen deposition at Rogers Lake, 1969, M.B. Davis.
- Chronology of fluctuating sea levels since the Triassic, 1987, Haq, Hardenbol, and Vail.
- Modeling the climatic response to orbital variations, 1980, J. Imbrie and J.Z. Imbrie.
- Global changes during the last 3 million years: Climatic controls and biotic responses, 1992, T. Webb and P.J. Bartlein
data resources
additional reference resources
Jonathan Adams' Atlas of Paleovegetation
Palaeos: The Trace of Life on Earth