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Earth and Space Sciences 302/433, Autumn 2009
Ice Ages/Environmental Change in the Glacial Ages



Autumn 2009 ESS 433 Seminar Papers

Final Exam Papers to review

Micheels and Montenari (2008). Snowball vs Slushball Proterozoic Earth

Pollard and Kasting (2005).  Snowball Earth: A thin ice solution.

Roe (2009).  In defense of Milankovitch.

Ruddiman (2003).  The anthropogenic greenhouse era began thousands of years ago.

Isbell et al.  (2003).  Revaluation of the timing and extent of late Paleozoic ice in Gondwana.

Smith (1997).  Estimates of the Earth's spin (geographic) axis relative to Gondwana from glacial sediments and paleomagmetism.

CLIMAP 1976


CLIMAP Revised

Whitlock (1992).  Vegetation history of the PNW

COHMAP (1988) Changes of the Last 18,000 years Model and Reconstructions

Broeker and Orr (1958 classic).  Radiocarbon chronology of Lake Lahontan and Lake Bonneville

Waitt (1984). Periodic outburst floods of Glacial Lake Missoula.

Shaw et al. (1999).  Channeled Scablands back to Bretz?

Midterm Papers to review

Booth et al. (2005). Cordilleran Ice Sheet

Banerjee and McDonald (1973).  Nature of Esker Sedimentation

Brennard (2000).  Glaciodynamics of Laurentide Eskers

Hatterstrand et al.  (2004).  Drumlin Formation Time: Evidence from Sweden

Boulton (1987) Origin of Glacial Fluted Surfaces

Krimmel (1996) Columbia Glacier Alaska Dynamics

Ritchie et al. (2008).  Hubbard Glacier Alaska Dynamics

Isostatic-Sea Level Change Puget Sound (Dethier 1995)

Porter, S.C. (1976) Pleistocene glacial history of the southern part of the North Cascades

Berger and Easterbrook (1993) TL Dating Whidbey Island

Stone et al. (1996) Cl-36 Calibration

Swanson and Caffee (2001) Cl-36 Calibration

Additional Papers from prior seminars

Gibbons et al

Raymond, C. 1987

Shaw and Sharp 1987

Porter, SC, 1981, Lichenometric Studies in the Cascade Range of Washington

Harden, J. W. 1981 Soil Developoment Index

Burke, R.M. and Birkeland, P.W. Relative Weathering Parameters

Fairbanks et al. (2005) Radiocarbon Calibration

Reimer et al. (2004) Radiocarbon Calibration

Briner and Swanson (1998) Stoss and Lee Erosion

Snowball Earth (Hoffman 2000)

Milankovitch Parameters (Wunsch 2004)

Eemian Interglaciation (Shackleton)

Vegetation Reconstruction PNW (Whitlock 1992)



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