Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences Volume VI (1978): Table of Contents

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• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1978
• Subjects: Life Sciences; Caldwell; Neuner; Rutford; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tnas/328; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/tnas/article/1327/viewcontent/Table_of_Contents_TNAS_1978.pdf

Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Officers, Policy Committee . ii Editorial Board, Instructions to Contributors . v Symposium: "The Ice Age- When dd it begin and has it ended" Cochairmen: John F. Shroder, Jr. and Lloyd G. Tanner The comparative method in stratigraphy: the beginning and end of an ice age (T. M. Stout) . 1 The Plio-Pleistocene: sediments, environments, and geochronology along the Karari Escarpment, East Turkana, Kenya (Vondra, Burggraf, Jr., and White) . 19 Chronology of some Late Cenozoic deposits from the central United States and the Ice Ages (J. D. Boellstorff) . 35 Progress on rock glacier research (J. F. Shroder, Jr. and J. R. Giardino) . 51 The evidence for climatic change from Antarctica? (R. H. Rutford) . 55 The classical European glacial stages: correlation with deep-sea sediments (G. J. Kukla) . 57 Climatic change and the extinction of large mammals during the Quarternary (C. B. Schultz and J. M. Hillerud) . 95 Excavations at Natural Trap Cave (L. D. Martin and B. M. Gilbert) . 107 The end of the Pleistocene in North America (L. D. Martin and A. M. Neuner) . 117 Excavation at the Hot Springs Mammoth Site: a Late Pleistocene animal trap (L. D. Agenbroad) . 127 The Middle Missouri Tradition in retrospect ( W. W. Caldwell) . 131 The complexity of measuring the impact of possible climatic change on agriculture (R. E. Neild) . 135 The origins of spring migratory staging by Sandhill Cranes and White-fronted Geese (R. S. Sharpe) . 141 Political and social implications of possible climatic changes (R. D. Miewald) . 145