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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... MidPleistocene Transition (MPT) The glacialinterglacial cycles of the last 800 ka Overview Environmental change over suborbital (millennial) timescales Introduction 7.4.2 7.4.3 7.4.4 7.4.5 7.5 7.5.1 7.5.2 7.5.3 7.5.4 7.5.5.
... cycles Late Holocene solar cycles El NinoSouthern Oscillation (ENSO) Late Holocene Atlantic and Pacific Oscillations People and climate The greenhouse effect Early human impact? Delayed glaciation? The Anthropocene Concluding remarks ...
... cycles of sealevel fall and rise Various types of biozone used in the subdivision and correlation of strata Schematic diagram showing a series of moraine ridges between which sediments have accumulated in lake basins following ...
... cycles from this record. b) A measure of the strength of correlation between the stacked oxygen isotope record and Milankovitch forcing over the past 1 Ma Modelled timeseries of ice volume and Northern Hemisphere subarctic surface air ...
... cycle from Antarctica, aligned with the NGRIP isotopic record from Greenland Synchronization of isotopic records from ... cycles Variations in concentration of terrestrial dust over the last 80 ka shown against δ 18 O variations, a proxy ...
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