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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... basins in northwest Scotland. b) Relative sealevel reconstructions for selected sites in the UK, based on dated index points and sealevel tendencies Relative changes in land or sea level in the UK during the late Holocene Raised coral ...
... basins following deglaciation a) Oxygen isotope stratigraphy in a 53 m core obtained from the Indian Ocean east of the Maldives Platform. b) A stacked record of Core MD9009643 and ODP core 677 from the eastern equatorial Pacific The ...
... basins and locked up in the expanding ice sheets whereas, following ice melting, sea levels would rise as water was returned to the oceans. This was the first statement of the GlacioEustatic Theory of sealevel change (section 2.5.2) ...
... basins. Second, the method can only provide a means of estimating the snowline elevation, and hence palaeotemperatures, for the time when the glaciers were confined to cirques or individual valleys and it is not suitable for calculating ...
... basins, are termed eustatic. At one time it was assumed that the extent of any eustatic change would be uniform worldwide, but it is now acknowledged that local gravitational effects can influence the rates and magnitudes of sealevel ...
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Reconstructing Quaternary Environments John Lowe,Mike Walker,Mike J. C. Walker Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |
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