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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... Calibration of the radiocarbon timescale Argonisotope dating Potassiumargon dating Argonargon (Ar/Ar) dating Problems and limitations of argon isotope dating Some applications of argonisotope dating Uraniumseries (Useries) dating ...
... calibration results for several species of planktonic Foraminifera Rapid changes in SST in the Alboran Sea (Mediterranean Sea) over the past 50 ka a) Fossil right femur of a mammoth of Middle Pleistocene age discovered at the site of ...
... calibration The conversion of a Gaussian radiocarbon error range to a non Gaussian, multimodal error distribution in calibrated time Wigglematch dating of a peat sequence in the Netherlands Branching decay of 40 K Chain decay pathways ...
... laminations (varves) spanning approximately the last 60 ka, and which provide a basis for calibrating the radiocarbon timescale (Chapter 5). Photograph courtesy of Takeshi Nakagawa, Ritsumeikan University, Cover image details.
... calibrated' (cal.) equivalents (partly after Lowe et al., 2001). Prior to the last interglacial, however, the Quaternary records are much more difficult to resolve and, although interregional correlations have been attempted (Figure 1.6) ...
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