Full Title: Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of Late Quaternary Valley Fills on the Southern High Plains
Author: Vance T. Holliday
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Reports on a five-year study of the late-Quaternary history of ten dry valleys or “draws” on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico. This record is a key to understanding the paleoenvironmental evolution of the region, important because of the long history of human occupation and because the High Plains is known to suffer from climatic extremes, historically. Sections are included on geomorphic characteristics and evolution, stratigraphy of the valley fill (the focus of the volume), and paleontology, paleobotany, and stable isotopes. The stratigraphy along and between draws is broadly synchronous and remarkably similar in lithologic and pedologic characteristics, suggesting that each draw underwent a similar, sequential evolution of the dominant depositional environments. The changing depositional environments suggest shifts in regional vegetation and climate, but there also were distinct local variations in environmental evolution.
Published: 5/01/1996
ISBN Number: 0-8137-1186-x
Pages: 144
Product Category: Memoirs