Reconstructing Quaternary EnvironmentsRoutledge, 28 oct. 2014 - 568 pages This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and geochemical data, and includes new data from terrestrial, marine and ice-core records. Dating methods are described and evaluated, while the principles and practices of Quaternary stratigraphy are also discussed. The volume concludes with a new chapter which considers some of the key questions about the nature, causes and consequences of global climatic and environmental change over a range of temporal scales. This synthesis builds on the methods and approaches described earlier in the book to show how a number of exciting ideas that have emerged over the last two decades are providing new insights into the operation of the global earth-ocean-atmosphere system, and are now central to many areas of contemporary Quaternary research. This comprehensive and dynamic textbook is richly illustrated throughout with full-colour figures and photographs. The book will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals in Earth Science, Environmental Science, Physical Geography, Geology, Botany, Zoology, Ecology, Archaeology and Anthropology |
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... oxygen isotope record Correlation between continental, marine and ice core records Longterm correlation on Milankovitch timescales Correlation on subMilankovitch timescales 6.3.3.3 6.4 7 7.1 7.2 7.2.1 7.2.2 7.2.3 7.2.4 7.2.5.
... Milankovitch timescales Introduction The MidPleistocene Transition (MPT) The glacialinterglacial cycles of the last 800 ka Overview Environmental change over suborbital (millennial) timescales Introduction 7.4.2 7.4.3 7.4.4 7.4.5 7.5 ...
... sapropel units, foraminiferal biozones and magnetozones a) Schematic representation of coupled box model. b) Box model results simulating the 100 ka Milankovitch climatic cycle 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 7.10 7.11.
... Milankovitch forcing over the past 1 Ma Modelled timeseries of ice volume and Northern Hemisphere subarctic surface air temperatures from 1.5–0.5 Ma, encompassing the MidPleistocene Transition Records of deuterium (δD), dust flux and ...
... Milankovitch. The theory is based on the assumption that surface temperatures of the earth would vary in response to regular and predictable changes in the earth's orbit and axis. Due to planetary gravitational influences, the shape of ...
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