Late quaternary environments of the Soviet Union

Contents......Page 6
Contributors to This Volume......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Introduction to the English edition......Page 14
Introduction......Page 24
Late Pleistocene Glaciation of the Northern USSR......Page 30
 1. Late Pleistocene Glaciation of European USSR......Page 32
 2. Late Pleistocene Glaciation of Western Siberia......Page 42
 3. Late Pleistocene Glaciation of North-Central Siberia......Page 50
 4. Late Pleistocene Mountain Glaciation in Northeastern USSR......Page 60
 5. Late Pleistocene Glaciation of the Arctic Shelf, and the Reconstruction of Eurasian Ice Sheets......Page 64
Mountain Glaciation......Page 72
 6. Mountain Glaciation in the USSR in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene......Page 74
 7. Late Pleistocene Glacier Regimes and Their Paleoclimatic Significance......Page 84
Permafrost in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene......Page 96
 8. Dynamics of Late Quaternary Permafrost in Siberia......Page 98
 9. Late Pleistocene Permafrost in European USSR......Page 108
 10. Holocene Permafrost in the USSR......Page 116
Loesses, Fossil Soils, and Periglacial Formations......Page 122
 11. Periglacial Landscapes of the East European Plain......Page 124
 12. Loess Stratigraphy in Southwestern Siberia......Page 148
 13. The Loess of Central Asia......Page 154
 14. Cryogenic Processes in Loess Formation in Central Asia......Page 162
 15. Periglacial Landscapes and Loess Accumulation in the Late Pleistocene Arctic and Subarctic......Page 170
 16. Age and History of Accumulation of the \"Ice Complex\" of the Maritime Lowlands of Yakutiya......Page 176
Vegetational History......Page 182
 17. Late Pleistocene Vegetation History......Page 184
 18. Holocene Vegetation History......Page 208
 19. Holocene Peatland Development......Page 230
Development of Animal Populations......Page 236
 20. Late Pleistocene Mammal Fauna of the Russian Plain......Page 238
 21. Late Pleistocene Mammal Fauna of Siberia......Page 248
 22. Late Pleistocene Insects......Page 252
Inland Sea Basins......Page 256
 23. Inland Sea Basins......Page 258
Paleoclimatic Reconstructions......Page 278
 24. Methods and Results of Late Pleistocene Paleoclimatic Reconstructions......Page 280
 25. Late Pleistocene Spatial Paleoclimatic Reconstructions......Page 290
 26. Holocene Paleoclimatic Reconstructions Based on the Zonal Method......Page 316
 27. Paleoclimatic Reconstructions Based on the Information Statistical Method......Page 326
 28. Holocene Climatic Changes......Page 334
Dispersal of Primitive Cultures......Page 340
 29. Paleolithic Cultures in the Late Pleistocene......Page 342
 30. Human Cultures and the Natural Environment in the USSR during the Mesolithic and Neolithic......Page 348