Title Defining the Pacific : opportunities and constraints / edited by Paul W. Blank and Fred Spier

Published Aldershot, Hampshire ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2002] ©2002

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Description xxxiii, 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Series The Pacific world ; v. 1 Pacific world ; v. 1 Contents Pt. 1. Perspectives on the Pacific. 1. Sea and Ocean Basins as Frameworks of Historical Analysis / Jerry H. Bentley. 2. The Pacific as an Artefact / O. H. K. Spate. 3. The Other One-Third of the Globe / Ben Finney. 4. Geographic Setting of the Pacific / Otis W. Freeman -- Pt. 2. Geology, Geophysics, and the Evolution of the Pacific Basin. 5. Development of the Circum-Pacific Panthallassic Ocean During the Early Paleozoic / Christopher R. Scotese. 6. Reconstructions of the Circum-Pacific Region / D. B. Rowley. 7. Terrane Analysis: A Circum-Pacific Overview / David G. Howell and David L. Jones. 8. Linear Volcanic Chains on the Pacific Plate / Everett D. Jackson. 9. Some Remarks on the Occurrence of Tsunamigenic Earthquakes around the Pacific / Kumizi Iida -- Pt. 3. Oceanography, Climatology, Biogeography. 10. Oceanography / Lynn D. Talley, Gerard J. Fryer and Rick Lumpkin. 11. Historical and Prehistorical Overview of El Nino/Southern Oscillation / David B. Enfield. 12. Paleogeographic Conclusions in Light of Biological Data / J. Wyatt Durham. 13. Biogeographic Mosaics in the Pacific / Jared Diamond -- Pt. 4. Human Settlement, Diffusion, and Early Trans-Pacific Contacts. 14. The Peopling of the Pacific / P. S. Bellwood. 15. Routes: Alternative Migration Corridors for Early Man in North America / K. R. Fladmark. 16. Linguistic Evidence in Support of the Coastal Route of Earliest Entry into the New World / Ruth Gruhn. 17. Movement of People and Ideas Across the Pacific / George F. Carter Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Natural history -- Pacific Area. SUBJECT Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005029 Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Geography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005919 Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Author Spier, Fred, 1952- Blank, Paul W. LC no. 2001041387 ISBN 0754606473

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