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Quaternary Environments: Deep History of the Desert Southwest GEOG 5280/6280 (Mon 8:35-11:35 AM) |
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The Quaternary Period encompasses the Earth’s most recent history, and Quaternary-aged deposits contain a record of changes that have occurred over the past ~1.9 million years. This record is critical to our understanding of climate and environmental changes that have affected humans and other organisms in the past, and can shed light on changes that are inevitable going forward into the future. |
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Clovis and Folsom spearpoints used to hunt extinct North American mammoth and bison |
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Excavating ice-age fossils from Quaternary deposits in Kartchner Caverns, Arizona |
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