The Quaternary Period in the United States

11 11/16 X 8 ¼ in Preface (A.R. Gillespie, S.C. Porter, B.F. Atwater). 1. The southern Lau rentide Ice Sheet in the United States: What have we learned in the last 40 years? (D.M. Mickelson, P.M. Colgan). 2. The Cordilleran Ice Sheet (D.B. Booth, K. Goetz Troost et al.). 3. Controls, history, out bursts, and impact of large late-quaternary proglacial lakes in North Am erica (J.T. Teller). 4. Pleistocene glaciations of the Rocky Mountains ( K.L. Pierce). 5. Quaternary alpine glaciation in Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, Sierra Nevada, and Hawaii (D.S. Kaufman, S.C. Porter, A.R. Gillespie). 6. Coupling ice sheet and climate models for simulatio n of former ice sheets (S.J. Marshall, D. Pollard et al.). 7. A dvances in permafrost process research in the United States since 1960 ( B. Hallet, J. Putkonen et al.). 8. Quaternary sea-level history of the United States (D.R. Muhs, J.F. Wehmiller et al.). 9. We stern Lakes, (L. Benson). 10. Isotopic records from ground-water and cav e speleothem calcite in North America (J. Quade). 11. Rivers and riverin e landscapes (D.R. Montgomery, E.E. Wohl). 12. Landscape evolution model