Defining the Pacific : opportunities and constraints / edited by Paul W. Blank and Fred Spier.
Material type: TextSeries: Pacific world ; v. 1.Publisher: Aldershot, Hampshire ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate/Variorum, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: xxxiii, 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0754606473
- 9780754606475
- 990 22
- DU18.5 .D44 2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. Perspectives on the Pacific. 1. Sea and Ocean Basins as Frameworks of Historical Analysis / Jerry H. Bentley. 2. The Pacific as an Artefact / O. H. K. Spate. 3. The Other One-Third of the Globe / Ben Finney. 4. Geographic Setting of the Pacific / Otis W. Freeman -- Pt. 2. Geology, Geophysics, and the Evolution of the Pacific Basin. 5. Development of the Circum-Pacific Panthallassic Ocean During the Early Paleozoic / Christopher R. Scotese. 6. Reconstructions of the Circum-Pacific Region / D. B. Rowley. 7. Terrane Analysis: A Circum-Pacific Overview / David G. Howell and David L. Jones. 8. Linear Volcanic Chains on the Pacific Plate / Everett D. Jackson. 9. Some Remarks on the Occurrence of Tsunamigenic Earthquakes around the Pacific / Kumizi Iida -- Pt. 3. Oceanography, Climatology, Biogeography. 10. Oceanography / Lynn D. Talley, Gerard J. Fryer and Rick Lumpkin. 11. Historical and Prehistorical Overview of El Nino/Southern Oscillation / David B. Enfield. 12. Paleogeographic Conclusions in Light of Biological Data / J. Wyatt Durham. 13. Biogeographic Mosaics in the Pacific / Jared Diamond -- Pt. 4. Human Settlement, Diffusion, and Early Trans-Pacific Contacts. 14. The Peopling of the Pacific / P. S. Bellwood. 15. Routes: Alternative Migration Corridors for Early Man in North America / K. R. Fladmark. 16. Linguistic Evidence in Support of the Coastal Route of Earliest Entry into the New World / Ruth Gruhn. 17. Movement of People and Ideas Across the Pacific / George F. Carter.
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