Contents -- Contributors to This Volume -- Preface -- Introduction -- Glaciation -- 1. The Late Wisconsin Glacial Record of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the United States -- 2. The Cordilleran Ice Sheet in Alaska -- 3. The Cordilleran Ice Sheet in Washington, Idaho, and Montana -- 4. Late Wisconsin Mountain Glaciation in the Western United States -- Nonglacial Environments -- 5. Late-Pleistocene Fluvial Systems -- 6. Depositional Environment of Late Wisconsin Loess in the Midcontinental United States -- 7. Sangamon and Wisconsinan Pedogenesis in the Midwestern United States -- 8. Trends in Late-Quaternary Soil Development in the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada of the Western United States -- 9. The Periglacial Environment in North America during Wisconsin Time -- 10. Pluvial Lakes of the Western United States -- Coastal and Marine Environments -- 11. Sea Level and Coastal Morphology of the United States through the Late Wisconsin Glacial Maximum -- 12. The Ocean around North America at the Last Glacial Maximum -- Pleistocene Biota -- 13. Vegetational History of the Northwestern United States Including Alaska -- 14. Late Wisconsin Paleoecology of the American Southwest -- 15. Vegetational History of the Eastern United States 25,000 to 10,000 Years Ago -- 16. Terrestrial Vertebrate Faunas -- 17. Late Wisconsin Fossil Beetles in North America -- 18. The Antiquity of Man in America -- Climatology -- 19. Paleoclimatic Evidence from Stable Isotopes -- 20. Late-Pleistocene Climatology.