Charting the ice age of North America: how vast glacial sheets moved, merged, and reshaped the continent.
This volume offers a clear, atlas‑style look at the Pleistocene or glacial period, with emphasis on how ice sheets and mountain glaciers spread across the continent. It covers the major centers of glaciation, the paths of advance and retreat, and the ways ice changed landscapes from coasts to the interior plains. Rich with regional detail, it explains how different ice bodies interacted and how topography and climate influenced their reach.
- How the Keewatin, Labradorean, and Cordilleran ice sheets behaved and where they advanced.
- The distribution of mountain glaciers in the United States and western Canada, including Alaska.
- The relationship between ice movement, topography, and resulting landforms and drift.
- The geographic story of glaciation from the Pacific Northwest to the Rockies and beyond.
Ideal for readers interested in ice ages, paleogeography, and North American geology, offering a map‑driven look at how ancient ice shaped today’s landscape.