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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... deposits Lake, mire and bog sediments Introduction The nature of lake and bog sediments Palaeoenvironmental evidence from lake sediments Lake sediments and landscape changes Lakelevel variations and climatic changes Lake sediments and ...
... deposits from the site of St Front, France Relative pollen diagram showing variations in abundance of principal taxa in a lake sediment sequence at Ioannina, northwest Greece Pollen concentration diagram for some of the taxa represented ...
... deposits overlying a Bronze Age occupation site near Ballyarnet Lake, Co. Derry, Northern Ireland Generalized drawings of coleopteran sclerites frequently preserved as Quaternary fossils, showing a range of diagnostic features used in ...
... deposits (drift) were referred to as 'interglacial', and hence the idea of oscillating warm ('interglacial') and cold ('glacial') episodes emerged. By the end of the nineteenth century, drift sheets of four separate glaciations (the ...
... deposits ('Drift Border'), and by 1878, a map had been produced of the southern margin of the glaciated area between Cape Cod and North Dakota. Similar investigations of glacial drift cover and end moraines were underway in Europe, Asia ...
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