Quaternary Geology of Canada and Greenland/With Maps

Pp. (6), 839; color frontispiece photo, numerous black-and-white illustrations, many are highlighted in red (geological maps, stratigraphic sections, photographs), 5 very large folding color maps and stratigraphic sections in slipcase. Publisher's original color pictorial laminated cloth and color pictorial laminated cloth slipcase, 4to. This volume contains 14 chapters covering regional Quaternary geology of Canada, applied Quaternary geology of Canada and Quaternary geology of Greenland. The maps cover the paleogeography of North America 8,000-5,000 years ago (3 sheets: 10-11,000 years ago and 18-12,000 years ago), the Quaternary geology mapping in Canada and the late Wisconsinan and Holocene Retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. This is Geology of Canada series no. 1; it is also Geology of North America volume K-1. Small ink name-stamp of 'Rhodes', dated February 1990, on the front endpaper and on the slipcase. No signs of use.