TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blank,Paul W.
AU  - Spier,Fred
TI  - Defining the Pacific: opportunities and constraints 
T2  - Pacific world
SN  - 0754606473
AV  - DU18.5 .D44 2002
U1  - 990 22
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - Aldershot, Hampshire, Burlington, Vt.
PB  - Ashgate/Variorum
KW  - Pacific Area
KW  - History
KW  - Geography
N1  - 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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