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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... atmospheric CO 2 concentration records from Antarctic ice cores. b) Mean temperature variations for stacks of proxy records arranged in 30° latitude bands Hypothesized chain of events during the Last Termination Quantified ...
... Atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases over the past 2 ka Concentration of CH 4 and CO 2 over the last 11 ka, showing departures (increases) from the natural tracegas trends Schematic diagram showing superimposition of global ...
... atmospheric temperatures during the course of the Quaternary (section 4.10). Many fossils, however, contain other indices of environmental change, most notably variations in oxygen isotope content. Pioneered by Cesare Emiliani, oxygen ...
... atmospheric and climatic conditions. Icecore data not only provide a temporal framework for Late Quaternary climatic change (section 3.11), but the upper levels of the ice cores also record the effects of recent industrial activity. The ...
... atmospheric environments (section 7.2). A range of increasingly sophisticated models has since been developed to explore, in addition to atmospheric circulation, such diverse phenomena as ice sheet behaviour (Siegert & Dowdeswell, 2004) ...
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