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intense frost action and permafrost; others, by intense frost action only. A conservative
guess would be that as much as 20% of the Earth's surface experienced cold-climate,
non-glacial conditions during the Pleistocene.
ADVANCED READING
Bell, M., Walker, M. J. C. (1992).
Late-Quaternary Environmental Change
. Addison Wesley
Longman, Harlow, 273 pp.
Bradley, R. S. (1999).
Palaeoclimatology. Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary
, 2nd edn.
Harcourt/Academic Press, Boston, MA, 613 pp.
Guthrie, R. D. (1990).
Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe: The Story of Blue Babe
. University
of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 323 pp.
Péwé, T. L., Berger, G. W., Westgate, J. A., Brown, P. M., Leavitt, S. W. (1997). Eva Interglaciation
Forest Bed, unglaciated east-central Alaska: global warming 125000 years ago.
Geological
Society of America
, special paper 319, 54 pp.
Rozenbaum, G. E., Shpolyanskaya, N. A. (1998). Late-Cenozoic permafrost history of the Russian
Arctic.
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
,
9
, 247-273.
Velichko, A. A. (1982).
Atlas Monograph: Palaeogeography of Europe for the Last 100
000 Years
.
Nauka, Moscow, 155 pp. (in Russian).
DISCUSSION TOPICS
1. How extensive, in time and space, were the Pleistocene periglacial environments in
mid-latitudes?
2. What are the problems of paleo-reconstruction of Pleistocene cold climates?
