Part I: Landforms and Ecosystems in the Making
Contents
- The Woodfordian Moraines:
- Our Imported Landscape
- How It Worked
- On the Scene, as Glaciers Receded
- Glacial Ice to Prairie Fire: Interglacial Warming Drives Ecosystems
- The Decipherers: Paleoscientists Find Evidence to Reconstruct, in Theory, the Sequence of Post-Glacial Ecosystems
- Deciphering the Paleo-Plant (Flora) Record
- Deciphering Paleo-Animal (Fauna) Records
- Deciphering the Post-Glacial Climate Sequence
- Post-Glacial Ecosystems on Parade Northward
- First North American: Projectile-Weapon Hunter, Manager of Fire, Modifier of Ecosystems
- The Tall-Grass, Wet Prairie: Fire-Sustained Relict of a Climate Extreme?
- Soil Color in the Prairie Peninsula
- Appendix
