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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... cave speleothem Trace elements in cave speleothem Speleothem formation and sealevel variations Speleothem formation and tectonic activity Speleothem formation and rates of denudation Other carbonate deposits Lake, mire and bog sediments ...
... Cave and fissure deposits Lacustrine sediments Fluvial sediments Quaternary vertebrate records Vertebrate biostratigraphy Vertebrate biogeography Vertebrate fossils and Quaternary environments Vertebrate fossils and faunal evolution ...
... cave with various types of sedimentary infill and associated biological remains a) Crosssectioned surface of a stalagmite from Akçakale Cave, northeast Turkey revealing annual growth layers spanning the last c. 500 yr. b) Crosssectioned ...
... Cave record The influence of the shape of the radiocarbon curve on calibration The conversion of a Gaussian radiocarbon error range to a non Gaussian, multimodal error distribution in calibrated time Wigglematch dating of a peat ...
... Cave, China, and the δ 18 O profile from the GISP2 Greenland ice core Schematic diagram showing the principles and limitations of tuning palaeoenvironmental records from two cores Synchronization of four Lateglacial and early ...
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