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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... 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 fullcolour figures and photographs. The book will be of ...
... earth's magnetic inclination and field strength (palaeointensity) during the last 2.5 Ma Magnetic susceptibility variations through a complete Quaternary loess sequence at Luochuan on the Loess Plateau, Central China a) Yellow and black ...
... is often referred to as astronomical or orbital tuning, employs known variations in the earth's orbit and axis (section 1.7), and is discussed more fully in Chapters 5 and 6. Figure 1.3 The Monte San Nicola section in southern Sicily,
... earth occurred, notably the initiation of a pattern of glacialinterglacial cycles that have dominated global climate to the present day (Pillans, 2004). As ... earth's orbit and axis (section 1.6), and involved a change in pacing from 23 ka.
... earth's climate system since the cooling trend associated with the glaciation of Antarctica at around 35 Ma, and appears to have been of much greater magnitude than the changes at around 1.8 Ma. This major climatic change had already ...
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