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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... Chemical content Stable isotope records Other trace substances Palaeoenvironmental significance of ice cores Conclusions Notes Biological evidence Introduction The nature of the Quaternary fossil record The taphonomy of Quaternary ...
... Chemical varves Complex varves Sources of error in varve counting Applications of varve chronologies Annual layers in glacier ice General principles Errors in icecore chronologies Icecore chronologies Lichenometry General principles ...
... chemical alteration Aminoacid geochronology Chemistry of proteins Aminoacid diagenesis Aminostratigraphy and age control Problems with aminoacid geochronology Recent developments in aminoacid geochronology Some applications of aminoacid ...
... chemical weathering of silicate minerals. The latter involves CO 2 from the atmosphere, and the products are ultimately deposited on the ocean floor where they are removed from the global geochemical carbon cycle. As a consequence, the ...
... chemical changes resulting from biological activity, appear to be major causal factors underlying these events. For example, the abrupt climatic changes that have occurred during the Late Quaternary in many lowlatitude regions may be ...
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