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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... areas. Being involved with INTIMATE has been a stimulating experience for both of us, and has informed much of the science with which we have been involved over the past two decades. But it has also been a source of enormous pleasure ...
... areas of the Northern Hemisphere into a coherent scheme of glacial and interglacial stages that has regional or interregional application have hitherto proved to be extremely difficult, principally because of the fragmented nature of ...
... areas (typically 1:10,000) to maps at the national scale (e.g. IGS Quaternary Map of the British Isles 1977, scale 1 ... area. Geomorphological mapping, particularly at scales of 1:10,000 or greater, has been most effectively employed in ...
... area, the 'absolute' geodetic position of the temporary datum cannot be established, and this limits the potential for altitudinal correlation with features in other areas. An important innovation in geomorphological studies, especially ...
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