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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... chronology The nature of varved sediments Clastic varves Organic (biogenic) varves) Chemical varves Complex varves Sources of error in varve counting Applications of varve chronologies Annual layers in glacier ice General principles ...
... chronology Biostratigraphy and molecular clocks Relative chronology based on processes of chemical alteration Aminoacid geochronology Chemistry of proteins Aminoacid diagenesis Aminostratigraphy and age control Problems with aminoacid ...
... chronology Lateglacial age models and correlation procedures Rapid environmental change during the Lateglacial Climate and the Holocene Introduction Holocene climate trends Holocene climatic events The PleistoceneHolocene transition The ...
... Chronology of water level changes in Lake Bonneville over the past 30 ka Principal dunebuilding episodes during the last 50 ka in the deserts of Africa, Australia, Asia and North America Dominant linear dune trends and presentday dust ...
... chronology from Finnish Lapland Simplified model of clastic and organic varve formation The pattern and rate of ice retreat across Scandinavia based on a combination of clayvarve chronology and radiocarbon dating a) Part of a varved ...
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