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The Loess Hills lie in a narrow band just east of the Missouri River and define most of the western boundary of Iowa. This is the natural history of these hills of wind-deposited silt. Some 100 illustrations (eight color and 60 black & white photos) enhance the text.
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Fragile Giants : A Natural History of the Loess Hills Bur Oak Original
author
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Mutel, Cornelia Fleischer.
publisher
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University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0877452571
print isbn13
:
9780877452577
ebook isbn13
:
9781587291623
language
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English
subject
Natural history--Loess Hills (Iowa and Mo.) , Natural history--Nebraska, Ecology--Loess Hills (Iowa and Mo.) , Ecology--Nebraska.
publication date
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1989
lcc
:
QH105.I8M87 1989eb
ddc
:
508.777
subject
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Natural history--Loess Hills (Iowa and Mo.) , Natural history--Nebraska, Ecology--Loess Hills (Iowa and Mo.) , Ecology--Nebraska.
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Fragile Giants
A Natural History of the Loess Hills
Cornelia F. Mutel
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS IOWA CITY
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1989 by the University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the Iowa Science Foundation.
Figures 50, 52, 56, and 58 are reprinted from The Wild Mammals of Missouri with the permission of the University of Missouri Press.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mutel, Cornelia Fleischer. Fragile giants: a natural history of the Loess Hills/by Cornelia F. Mutel. 1st ed. p. cm. (A Bur oak original) Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-87745-256-3 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-87745-257-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Natural history Iowa. 2. Natural history Missouri. 3. Natural history Nebraska. 4. Ecology Iowa. 5. Ecology Missouri. 6. Ecology Nebraska. I. Title. II. Title: Loess Hills. III. Series. QH105.I8M87 198989-35497 508.777 dc20CIP
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 01 00 99 98 97
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For my young and tender creatures Chris, Andy, and Matthew and for the young and tender of earth's millions of other species
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
xi
Part I. Natural History of the Loess Hills
1 Introduction
3
2 Ancient Landscapes and Communities
11
Earliest Times: Laying down the Ancient Bedrock
13
The Ice Age
20
3 Humans Come to the Hills
32
Human Cultures of the Loess Hills
33
Natural Changes in Holocene Native Communities, Climate, and Landforms
64
Effects of Euro-American Settlement on the Natural Landscape
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