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Plio-Pleistocene Glacial Deposits In Northeastern Nebraska: New Exposures And Interpretations, M. R. Voorhies, R. G. Goodwin
Plio-Pleistocene Glacial Deposits In Northeastern Nebraska: New Exposures And Interpretations, M. R. Voorhies, R. G. Goodwin
School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications
A field trip sponsored by the Nebraska Geological Society. Trip Leaders: Dr. M.R. Voorhies, University of Nebraska State Museum. & Dr. R.G. Goodwin, HWS Technologies Inc. Spring 1989
Recent interpretation of oxygen isotopic data for benthic and planktonic foraminifera recovered during ocean drilling programs suggest that world ice volume was greater than the ice volume of 18 thousand years ago (Late Wisconsinan) approximately 2.5 million years ago (Prentice and Matthews, Geology, November, 1988). This agrees well With biostratigraphic and paleoecologic interepretations drawn from sediment cores obtained from the Arctic Ocean Basin. The latter data suggest complete ice cover of the …