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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... Dryas advance. This occurred at a similar time to other advances across the Mediterranean associated with Heinrich Event I. However, evidence of a glacial advance associated with the Younger Dryas has so far proved elusive in Iberia and ...
... Younger Dryas ( Jansen & Veum 1990 , de Vernal et al . 1996 , Duplessy et al . 1996 ) but prior to ( Björck et al . 1996 , Jiang et al . 1998 ) and after the Younger Dryas event ( Blanchon & Shaw 1995 ) . During the Younger Dryas the ...
... Dryas chronozone . The inland ice receded from the central part of the fjord in the middle of the Allerød chronozone and reached its easternmost position before the Younger Dryas glacier advance at the transition Allerød / Younger Dryas ...
... , the 250 - km - long Central Finland ice - marginal formation , which is similar to the Salpausselkäs in size and structure . According to the varved 25 The Younger Dryas ice-marginal formations of southern Finland H Rainio.
... Younger Dryas ( dryas is one of the herbaceous plants that clothed the landscape during the glacial time ) . Like other signs pointing to rapid climate change , this rather extraordinary and rela- tively short - lived return to cold ...
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