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